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Originally Posted by GoodLife
You are confusing mortality rate with IFR (infection fatality rate) The mortality rate for USA is all cause deaths divided by total population.
For instance in 2018
Number of deaths: 2,813,503
Death rate: 863.8 deaths per 100,000 population
If you were to calculate current mortality rate of covid 19 in USA
Number of deaths: 159,128
Death rate: 48 deaths per 100,000 (or 0.00048 overall)
Nobody is hiding this information, it can be found for any country in the world. World in Data lists covid 19 death rate per million for every country in the world. Just click on any country. USA is not the worst in the world, currently 8th highest rate.
Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people - Our World in Data
Epidemiologists look at the Infection Fatality Rate which is total deaths divided by number of cases or infections. To make this accurate, they have to estimate the number of asymptomatic cases never tested and add that to the number of confirmed cases.
CDC currently states the IFR for covid 19 is 0.0065
COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios | CDC |
According to the CDC Measures of Mortality, what you are commenting about is the "Death-to-case ratio". That involves "guestimating" how many asymptomatics are out there. Other countries do not test as much as the US, so using those stats is not really relevant.
Deaths per capita is a better marker for the mortality rate of this virus. That is comparing apples to apples with other countries.