There are a lot of "fact checker" pages denying that the recovery rate for Covid is 98%, but which use the case fatality rate (CFR) yet if the above is correct then the Covid-19 recovery rate is still very high. Including estimated infected persons (infection fatality rate) would lower the fatality rate even more. .
For as ourworldindata.org states,
In the media, it is often the “case fatality rate” that is talked about when the risk of death from COVID-19 is discussed.1 This measure is sometimes called case fatality risk or case fatality ratio, or CFR. But this is not the same as the risk of death for an infected person – even though, unfortunately, journalists often suggest that it is. It is relevant and important, but far from the whole story.
The CFR is very easy to calculate. You take the number of people who have died, and you divide it by the total number of people diagnosed with the disease. So if 10 people have died, and 100 people have been diagnosed with the disease, the CFR is [10 / 100], or 10%.
What we want to know isn’t the case fatality rate: it’s the infection fatality rate. The IFR is the number of deaths from a disease divided by the total number of cases...
IFR has been calculated in multiple studies over the course of months to be right about 0.65%.
CFR is way less than 2%. Divide by 10 or more.