Those who want to diminish the danger of the virus will now transition to two lines of argument. The first is that while 2 percent of those confirmed to have been infected have died over the course of the pandemic — a total that includes deaths in the early months when the virus was not as well understood — even in the last four weeks the ratio of new infections to deaths is about the same. Over that period, 1.79 percent of confirmed infections has resulted in a death. That ratio has been fairly flat since the vaccines began being broadly rolled out.

Source: Washington Post July 09, 2021 15:33 UTC