Those must be case fatality rates (CFR), which means those who were classed as infected, and since most testing or diagnosis was usually of those who were sick enough to qualify for such, then it means these cases were those most likely to die. Yet it is est. that estimated that about 80% of those infected with Covid-19 experience a mild case [WHO said the like] – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment. When these are factored in, you have the infected fatality rate, which is much lower.
Considering that a large number of cases are asymptomatic (or present with very mild symptoms) and that testing has not been performed on the entire population, only a fraction of the SARS-CoV-2 infected population is detected, confirmed through a laboratory test, and officially reported as a COVID-19 case. The number of actual cases is therefore estimated to be at several multiples above the number of reported cases. The number of deaths also tends to be underestimated, as some patients are not hospitalized and not tested...Actual Cases (1.7 million: 10 times the number of confirmed cases)...Actual Deaths (23,000: almost twice the number of confirmed deaths)
I use the figure of “15x reported cases” or 5%-7% of the total population (have been infected...the “denominator”)...using those #’s you still get a CFR of 0.19% for CA, 0.32% for the USA minus N.Y. & N.J., and 0.49% for the USA as a whole.