That is how averages work. One could equally point out that 0.6% IFR actually underestimated the risk for some adults. Many people shared Facebook memes of a “

That is how averages work. One could equally point out that 0.6% IFR actually underestimated the risk for some adults. Many people shared Facebook memes of a “99.9%” survival rate not understanding that they personally were at greater risk than that. This page was available on the CDC website for quite a long time explaining the different risks in a pretty straightforward table https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...