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That is misinformation. The actual COVID-19 infection fatality rate calculated by the CDC is 0.6%, not 1.2%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...



The JHU site that’s linked is reporting case fatality rates, not infection fatality rates

It’s also not estimating case under-reporting like CDC is

I think jumping straight to misinformation is a bit strong here, but it’s important to make fair comparisons and discuss the context of the stats along with the raw numbers


So only ~36x more deadly!




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