Try refreshing your browser, or Munk Debate: Did we overreact to COVID? In the early days of that epidemic, people estimated a case fatality rate that was very, very high, and they panicked over it. Later, as studies were done about how widespread the disease actually had been in the population, those fatality rate numbers came very sharply downward. The initial estimates by the World Health Organization, which were case fatality estimates, were in the order of three to four per cent. These case fatality rate numbers are misleading.

Source: National Post September 14, 2020 10:06 UTC