Originally Posted by
contrails12
I know you’re on a roll here but maybe you should get out a calculator.
Roughly .04% of the US population has already died from this thing, and it ain’t over yet.
120,000/330,000,000=0.00036x100=
.036
If we're picking nits...births in the US outnumber deaths by something in the vicinity of 3/4M annually so we're probably ahead in population from where we started the year. To that point, CDC statistics show 60% of COVID deaths are 75+ years old and 80.7% are 65+ years old.
Multiple serosurveys from cities/regions/states across the country peg actual SARS-CoV-2 infections
at least 10:1 in the midwest and higher on the coasts, which serves to lower IFR to something resembling the 1968 H3N2 pandemic.