Battacharya argued that the Covid infection fatality rate was .2%, but in 2020 .5% of New York City died of Covid. He was a Chicken Little in reverse.
I don't trust much in the way of Covid statistics. We all know the hospitals went into gouge mode because of the boatloads of cash for anything Covid so people dying in a hospital with Covid but not by Covid was counted as a Covid death.
Subtract the ones who "died with Covid" and all the ones who died unnecessarily on ventilators, in nursing homes and without early treatment medicines.
Have you gotten all your boosters yet? You can have all of mine!