The divisor for case fatality is number of infections, not total population. You...

DrJones1098 · on April 27, 2021

No that's the chance of death if you're already infected.

The fatality chance for a healthy person in the general population is the measure of risk for the average person. Using the same measure of population that the R value uses to calculate infectiousness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Have you been using 1.8% chance of death as your chance of dying? I would be scared too.

For a healthy person to become infected is a very small number to begin with and highly biased towards the elderly or people with co morbidities.

You can legitimately lighten up. Your risk from this is infinitesimally small if you're under 55 and healthy.

If not it's still unbelievably small.

EdwardCoffin · on April 27, 2021

This is right from the Johns Hopkins page linked to above:

> fatality ratios (the number of deaths divided by the number of confirmed cases)

So you’re wrong. Again.

DrJones1098 · on April 28, 2021

fatalities / infected = fatality rate of those infected.

It's literally the definitions of those words.

It's fine continue to be scared. I legit feel bad for you.

My state just lifted the mask mandate recently and were not even at 30% vaccination rate yet.

Feels good.

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