> surprisingly easy to stop the spread, but the death rates are higher. Are they? The current IFR estimates (general, not counting age divided groups) range be

> surprisingly easy to stop the spread, but the death rates are higher. Are they? The current IFR estimates (general, not counting age divided groups) range between 0.2 and 0.9%. That might still include a significant number of individuals, but it's not very high (of course by age groups, this changes). I still wonder whether the high death rates in some countries, including my own, were not due to the virus itself being very deadly, but because it found "niches" of vulnerable people (hospitals, nursing care homes). I don't think anyone has yet studied these dynamics in depth.