Are you getting the 98% from this source, or similar?
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I ask because, obv. a survival rate of 98% sounds great, but based on that it still means 4 million dead. So if vaccines can move the needle to a survival rate of 98.5% or 99% or 99.5%, you are talking about millions of lives.
To me, 98% sounds great, but saving millions of lives sounds better.
The IFR for this thing at the beginning of the pandemic was something like .6%. Pre vaccine it had fallen to somewhere like .2%. Post vaccines the measure hasn't been calculated yet but given the continuing fallen IFR it's somewhere less than .1% the equivalent of bad flu in the vaccinated. The issue is it's more contagious, and the delta is more contagious, so more people get it than the flu.