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It's nowhere near that. It's estimated that most cases aren't detected, and even of the ones who are, it varies between 15% and less than 1%. The actual fatalit
by dvirsky 6y ago
It's nowhere near that. It's estimated that most cases aren't detected, and even of the ones who are, it varies between 15% and less than 1%. The actual fatality rate is estimated to be between 0.3% and 1% - varying wildly by age of course. That's still many many people and would be a huge tragedy which we should definitely avoid, but no one is considering numbers in that order or magnitude.
If the IFR was 10%, everybody would have been hiding in their homes and no one would be complaining about wearing masks.