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by jMyles 2289 days ago
> Aiming to let 56% of your population get infected of which more than 3% will die

Not a single paper to come out in the past 72 hours has a CFR that high. We have been inundated with these very high numbers, but they are based on an almost certainly underestimated infection rate.

Several experts have no opined that the CFR is likely less than 1%, perhaps much less.

A paper today projected it at .04% [0].

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepareInsteadOfPanic/comments/fljz...

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I am starting to use such inflated mortality rates as an indicator that the poster/article is either fearmongering or simply not well informed enough to have a worthwhile opinion.
It's maddening. Some of us have been asking this question for the past 5 days and being told we're crazy for not simply believing what is obviously an indefensible denominator. [0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580814