--- "Thanks. I had 910,104 deaths out of 334,000,000 Pop. = 0.27% using a different source for US pop rounded, while including the astronomical 24.3% CFR for those 85+ - most of whom would likely soon die anyway (makle life exp. 72.76) - skews the whole CFR."
That's the point of taking a simple calculation -- incidents of X in a population Y.
When one questions, as some do, the "denominator" in such a simple calculation, the real question is one of changing the aritmentic outcome.
Case fatality rate is " deaths divided by cases." Of course, the percentage would be higher. If one looks for the higher percentage as the desired outcome, then "(CFR / population) x 100" yields that percentage. The underlying assumption is that counting the cases is accurate. But one has seen definitions for case change throughout the pandemic, and presumptions and "assumed' cases have qualified. One recent celebrity died, was said to be positive through a test, and yet the assertion was another of those "with Covid" as opposed to "from Covid." Depends on the underlying taxonomy.
You are correct, to my view, to observe the counting and underlying taxonomy "skew."
This is why I have chosen simply to take two unarguable bits of data -- overall instances of death within a population, and population -- to do such a simple calculation. So, from JHU Corona today...
( 5,793,370 "global deaths" / 7,922,649,789 global population ) x 100 = 0.073% mortality rate.
And therefore -- number of deaths / populations inverted (100% - the mortality rate) -- the survivablity rate over twenty-five months is 99.927 %.
Such has been asserted for months now by many. The pandemic is winding down because the numbers -- adding up -- don't seem to add up as devastating as the messaging has said it is.
99.927 % survive. Attribute it to natural immunity, general health, mRNA experimental injections, early treatment prophylactics and all, but still, over twenty-five months, 99.927 % survive worldwide. Over half from the time before the actual availability and resultant push for "vaccines" and about half after.
Of course people die of many things. To make the entire last two years into "Covid" deaths has been fraudulent.
