That actually is a pretty interesting link. Its from a reputable source and contains some death rate information I haven't been able to find easily, so thank you for that. I especially appreciate the actual numbers for the flu comparison. The bars are not from the same brackets exactly so its hard to do a direct comparison without more digging, but it looks like COVID is about 10 times as fatal as the flu as a rough approximation.
I'm going to need to think on it and reconcile the ~3% observed death rate with the numbers here though. That implies almost half of our coronavirus cases were in the 74+ cohort, the number is being impacted by the higher % deaths in the 86+ age bracket, the IFR number is inaccurate or the COVID case/death count ratio isn't right.
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