Let's take John out of the discussion.
On Oct 05 the WHO officially announced there were 750m cases worldwide. On that day their official fatality count was ~1m. This comes out to an IFR of 0.13%
Do you have an issues with this statistic as well?
On Oct 05 the WHO officially announced there were 750m cases worldwide. On that day their official fatality count was ~1m. This comes out to an IFR of 0.13%
Do you have an issues with this statistic as well?
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-united-nat...
The 750mn cases is an estimate based on seroprevalence studies. The 1mn deaths are based on deaths following a positive PCR test. A more appropriate comparison is 1mn deaths over 35mn cases, leading to a CFR of over 2%.
Odd how no one ever quotes that number.