I think NYC skews it. NYC, which has a loose definition of COVID-19 deaths, is responsible for half of the US deaths. There's also really no other metro area

I think NYC skews it. NYC, which has a loose definition of COVID-19 deaths, is responsible for half of the US deaths. There's also really no other metro area in the US which rivals NYC in population density. After all of this, I think we're going to find the IFR for NYC to be closer to 1% while the rest of the country is under 0.5%