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Originally Posted by MaDef
if you delve into the numbers the survival rate is probably higher, deaths / confirmed cases comes out to about 1.6% mortality rate. If you extrapolate for the cases that aren't "confirmed", then the mortality rate is probably closer to .8%. (that's for the United States) rates will fluctuate due locale.
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This. Unless you've spent time in the US, you generally don't appreciate the vastness of it in comparison the most European countries. It takes longer to drive across Texas than it does to drive from Rome to Berlin, the example.
Likewise, of population density is much much lower than European or Asian countries in most cases.
Because of this, it's very very likely that 100x as many people have gotten covid than has been reported. Many people never knew they had it until they got tested it of curiosity. I've heard lots of anecdotal "I think I had it, I felt awful for two days earlier this year" from various people. Then they got tested and lo and behold, they've got the antibodies...
It doesn't help that reporting of covid cases became political and/or there was a perverse financial incentive for medical facilities to report as many covid-19 cases as they could.