0.13% mortality
I don't even want to know what part of your anatomy you pulled that out of because it doesn't pass the smell test.
212000/0.0013 = half of the US population had COVID-19 and recovered?
deaths / population
212k / 336,000k does not yield .13 percent, but 0.06%.
I'll find the reference.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
The numbers you are looking for are:
217,658/7,831,355 or 2.78%
as of Oct 8th.
mortality of an infection=deaths/# of infections
That's the confirmed case fatality rate. You can't get the mortality of a disease if you don't know how many people have it, and WHO came out and said they think that 10% of the population has gotten COVID-19, meaning over 700 million cases, not 7 million.
What WHO "thinks" is irrelevant. Mortality rate is always reported using available data. Whether it is cancer cases or influenza infections.
Of course you have people who had COVID-19, have recovered and were not counted in the number of infections. Just like we have undetected cancers and remissions. Also, we are not including infected/untested people who died in accidents, or had strokes.
The mortality rate of an ongoing disease is a moving target and can change at any moment. All you can do is report mortality at a specific date, with the available data. Anything else should be cordially dismissed.
