Virus fatality rate is nowhere near 2%. Try .02%
There's a game some people play with statistics. People who want to minimize the risk of covid use two numbers: 1) people in a country who die of covid, and 2) the population of that country. That produces a really low fatality percentage because the whole population of the country has not caught the virus.
It seems to me to be much more reasonable for 2) to be the number of people who have tested positive for covid. That way you can say that "of X number of people who have tested positive for covid X% have died".
In Canada 1,443,520 people have had the virus and either recovered or died. 26,790 have died, and that rounds off to 2%.
Virus fatality rate is nowhere near 2%. Try .02%
There's a game some people play with statistics. People who want to minimize the risk of covid use two numbers: 1) people in a country who die of covid, and 2) the population of that country. That produces a really low fatality percentage because the whole population of the country has not caught the virus.
It seems to me to be much more reasonable for 2) to be the number of people who have tested positive for covid. That way you can say that "of X number of people who have tested positive for covid X% have died.
In Canada 1,443,520 people have had the virus and either recovered or died. 26,790 have died, and that rounds off to 2%.