The actual death toll for COVID-19 won’t be calculable for some time, but there are early indications that it may be significantly lower than calculations of deaths per confirmed cases lead one to believe.
For example, in Florida, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Miami-Dade County announced completion of its
second round of community testing for COVID-19 on April 24. Long story short this was one of May studies done others include Stanford, USC, NEJM. All found significant evidence that the infection rate was actually much higher than reported in hospitals and testing sites.
These results may indicate the deadly COVID-19 pandemic – with mortality rates generally under 1% – is no more deadly than the seasonal influenza. Along with the fact that we are categorizing deaths that had nothing to do with the Rona but they tested for antibodies so we mark it a Rona death. I’m not a denier I’ve had family that has already had it and when someone younger dies with no pre existing conditions it’s enough to make anyone nervous. Is it really worth the masks and lockdown for even a 3.5% death rate? At the highest.