You are mixing up several different measurements. First, parent was talking about the risk to an individual adult person; you yourself note that varies with ot

You are mixing up several different measurements. First, parent was talking about the risk to an individual adult person; you yourself note that varies with other parameters including age. This isn't comparable to the 2% figure. Second, the mortality figure is 2% of people who are infected, not of the total population. So it's substantially less than 6.5 million people, unless literally everyone in the country catches the bug.