The CDC said “85% of cases are mild/Asymptomatic”
Almost NONE of these cases are counted in the “confirmed cases” outside of the US.
You had to have Pneumonia in China to even get tested. Not tested = Not confirmed.
85% not tested means the actual Number of cases is 4X - 5X the “confirmed” number.
That makes the 3.4% death rate 1% - .8% … Bad, but 4X lower than 3.4%.
Spanish Flu killed whole families. Across the US, there are mass graves in cemeteries that date back to 1918-1919.
There were very few 80 year olds to kill in 1918. Covid 19 isn’t really killing kids. This is bad, but it isn’t 1918 Spanish Flu.
“Almost NONE of these cases are counted in the “confirmed cases” outside of the US.”
That’s not true. Many confirmed cases are people that were tested because they came in contact with someone else that was confirmed after they were tested because they came in contact with someone else that was confirmed...
Look at Singapore, S. Korea and many other places that are not the USA.
The rest of your argument is moot.
That's what everyone keeps pointing out.
But isn't the mortality rate for any illness (such as influenza) based on the number of confirmed cases? Whereas the number of actual cases could be much higher?
That is, many people catch the flu but don't see a doctor. So, couldn't the mortality rate for the flu be even lower than we think it is?