In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/23/the-covid-19-data-is-clear-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation/#comment-2190648">Michael</a>.
It is <em>possible</em> that the mortality rate from the novel Coronavirus is as low as you are so confidently asserting based on that article (which would put it close to the general range of seasonal flu), but the actually number of infected people would have to be much higher than the number that is currently being reported. While I suspect that the actual mortality rate is lower than some of the early estimates of 3 to 4%, I am not yet convinced that it is far below 1%, either.
Let’s do some basic math using a fatality rate of 0.2%. or 0.002, the midrange of your assertion. That translates to 2,000 fatalities per 1M infections. That means that over 25M people would have to be infected to generate 50,500 fatalities, which is the most recent number that I have seen.
However, the number of fatalities resulting from the
