> For comparison, the death rate across all age groups of flu is 0.1%. Extrapolating out, a failure to contain the virus will still mean tens of thousands of young healthy people dying in every country.
I’m not sure why you’re comparing the all-age mortality of flu to the age-specific mortality of COVID-19.
I’m not sure why you’re comparing the all-age mortality of flu to the age-specific mortality of COVID-19.
The relevant metric would be about 0.02% [1]
1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html