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"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."

Yes, here is a while section on that . CDC Covid-19 case and death criteria

" 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 %. "

About the same for the US. Yet even the 1018 flu did not see the length and the scope of Covid-19 reactionary restrictions

And which is actually lower unless the tot. pop. figure is as current as the Covid death figure. This site lists the US at 334,596,490 for 2021. Then there is the Estimated Infection Fatality Rate (IFR: est. total infections and deaths) which the CDC has not provided since September 2021 and overestimates.

And while the justification for these all-ages long-term restrictions on freedom of speech, association, travel and even breathing is that they are necessary to save lives, yet the “pregnancy fatality rate” (PFR) is19.5% (excluding spontaneous miscarriages among known pregnancies which are estimated to average approx15%). Therefore, with the CFR for those ages 0-17 being 0.01%, then despite headlines of exceptions, for the young (and fit and healthy) the odds of dying from Covid-19 are most minimal. That is, unless you are “quarantined” in the womb.