In late May the CDC came out with its best estimates of the symptomatic case fatality ratio and percent of asymptomatic infections. Using these estimates: Case Fatality Rate is 0.4% Infection Fatality Rate is 0.26% That is for all age groups. When you look at just the CFR estimates per age group: 0 – 49 […]

Dr. Fauci wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine “…the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza ”