Nobody suggested it was 4.7% of the entire population. It is 4.7% of all the people who tested positive, not just those who are hospitalized. https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus
Ok, I’ll play along.
And what are their testing criteria? How many kits did they have? Are they blind testing or selective testing (big clue)? What population are they testing? Are they just testing corpses?
Extrapolating their results to the entire population, like it’s 4.7% of all people, is complete hysteria BS.
...I did make an error (by 100x lol) - although it’s more like 1-2% but still not 4.7.
~118500 cases
1979 deaths
At 4.7% we’d have over 5500.
NY 52300 cases, 728 deaths = 1.3%
NJ 11100 cases, 140 deaths = 1.2%
Most States that are showing numbers are in this range.
...unless these numbers don’t agree with another source(?)