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Originally Posted by uh-oh
maybe my math is wrong but the latest numbers for covid's death rate, from johns hopkins is 87.49 deaths out of 100 thousand.
wouldn't that make the death rate 0.08749?
i dropped out in the 9th grade. someone confirm
edit, thats america's death rate btw. other countries are lower and higher
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Your math isn't wrong but we're talking about two different quantities.
You're looking at deaths/population
The 1% figure is deaths/infections. Approx. 1% of people who catch covid die. Not everyone in the population is infected so that rate is much smaller.