Using that we can find the case fatality rate. They also have the infection fatality rate that is always going to be an estimate for any virus/illness because there will always be more infections than total reported cases. That's true for the flu, for COVID19, for pretty much any infectious disease. Based on the recent report that they're estimating around 20 million people have been infected that would put the infection fatality rate at about .6%.

Looking at deaths as a percentage of the total population doesn't tell anything about the actual fatality rates unless you're assuming everyone in the country has been infected. If you haven't gotten the virus then you haven't died from it. The only reason to express it as a function of the total population is to downplay the fatality rate. It's a completely meaningless number. It would be insanely small for just about any singular cause of death. For example, breast cancer or car accidents would be around .013%. Heart disease which is the number one cause of death in this country would be .19%. Sorry but it's a bad chart.



[Post edited by AbsolutVT03 at 06/28/2020 3:43PM]