The Case Fatality Rate depends completely on the total number of people who have been infected.
My own estimate is 10% of the USA population - about 33 million.
We have tested 33.5 million Americans, and their infection rate is 8.2%.
No one is reporting the antibody test numbers, but they are at least 1.8%, and probably much higher than that.
Total USA deaths are - 128,783
Divide 128,783 deaths by 33 million infections = 0.4%
If we counted COVID deaths the same way we count flu deaths, the COVID Case Fatality Rate would drop to 0.2% - almost identical to the flu rate in 2018.
“””We have tested 33.5 million Americans, and their infection rate is 8.2%”””
No, we have conducted 33.5 million tests in the USA.
Many people are tested more than once. The number of Americans tested is probably less than 20 million.
The CFR depends on the number of people that have been definitively diagnosed.
The Infection Fatality Rate depends on the number infected and can only be estimated.