Risk of Getting vs Risk of Dying
Penny Brown writes:
So now Fauci comes out with saying that the real death rate might have been much higher - in the range of over 900,000 not the 560,000 number - so that the cost benefit analysis looks a little better and he can't be faulted.
Steve Ellison writes
900,000 seems way too high. The Occam's Razor starting point for an estimate would be 504,000, the increase in total US deaths in 2020 compared to 2019, as cited here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234