Researchers associated with Stanford University Medical School tested a sample of 3,330 residents of the Santa Clara county using blood tests to detect antibodies to determine whether or not they had been exposed to the coronavirus. If the researchers’ calculations are correct, coronavirus is a lot less lethal than many have feared it to be.
The researchers calculated the infection fatality rate, that is, the percent of people infected with the disease who die: “A hundred deaths out of 48,000-81,000 infections corresponds to an infection fatality rate of 0.12-0.2%,” they report.* That’s about the same infection fatality rate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates for seasonal influenza.
Meanwhile, Governor Jay Inslee stated that despite a growing number of protests, it is his intention to keep the stay at home order active until September.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/covid-19-lethality-not-much-different-than-flu-says-new-study