A 1% mortality rate when you consider that 70 million to 150 million U.S. residents would contract COVID-19 U.S. It would mean between 700,000 and 1.5 million dead – roughly the population of Washington, D.C., on the low end, or the entire population of Hawaii on the high end. We don’t want anyone to die, if we can help it.
What? There is nowhere in the world with that high of a death rate from this virus. The fact is, the more testing done, the lower the overall death percentage has dropped - and that's not even factoring in the untold millions of asymptomatic people who are never entered into the data. Estimates are that between 40-60% of those infected are wither asymptomatic or exhibit such mild symptoms that they don't bother getting tested. So what that means is that a huge number of folks who contracted the virus and recovered aren't counted