According to the CDC's latest best guess, the infection fatality rate is 0.65% and survival rate is 99.35%. And that indeed is a fur piece from 99.98%. As you know it depends a lot on age and pre-existing conditions.
Originally Posted by Tiny
So, to reach Herd immunity 70% of the USA population would have become infected.
# infected = .70 * 330,000,000 = 231,000,000
# deaths = .0065 * 231,000,000 = 1,501,500
This is the number that I had in your contest. The 1.5 million deaths is a heavy price to pay to reach herd immunity. There are some on here that would take their chances or are not concerned about death, as long as things are not shut down.