Indeed. It is highly infectious. But the death rate in the US has proven to be just slightly higher than the flu.

If you are under the age of 50, your best bet is to try and get the virus before winter.

From my child comment for better visibility:

The rate of deaths to positive tests is like 0.004, and based on what we know about testing it's assumed that we're catching less than 33% of all positives, so the assumption is the true death rate is (at worst) about 0.0016. The flu death rate is 0.001.

If you assume that either COVID deaths are being trumped up (probably true) or that we're catching fewer than 33% of all positives (also probably true), the true death rate is likely lower.

Indeed. It is highly infectious. But the death rate in the US has proven to be just slightly higher than the flu.

If you are under the age of 50, your best bet is to try and get the virus before winter.

Edit: From my child comment for better visibility:

The rate of deaths to positive tests is like 0.004, and based on what we know about testing it's assumed that we're catching less than 33% of all positives, so the assumption is the true death rate is (at worst) about 0.0016. The flu death rate is 0.001.

If you assume that either COVID deaths are being trumped up (probably true) or that we're catching fewer than 33% of all positives (also probably true), the true death rate is likely lower.

Indeed. It is highly infectious. But the death rate in the US has proven to be just slightly higher than the flu.

If you are under the age of 50, your best bet is to try and get the virus before winter.