>>12368547COVID death rate is not 2.4% that's the CFR; (deaths divided by confirmed cases) , the IFR (deaths divided by estimated cases based on serological surveys) was estimated to be 0.6% early in the pandemic, but now doctors know how to treat it better, there's no more unnecesary intubation, even after controlling for age and comorbidites a person hospitalized for covid is three times more likely to survive now compared to march-april
https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-death-rates-falling-treatments.html unless significantly more pople are being hospitalized now it should logically follow that the death rate is also sround a third of what it was in march, so aorund 0.2%, basically flu levels
