who tryna get vaccinated though?

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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

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.