A review of COVID-19 studies from the World Health Organization indicates that median COVID-19 infection fatality rates are only 0.23% — much lower than initially anticipated. Early data from China suggested a 3.4% fatality rate.
The latest data were gathered from 61 studies across 51 locations that showed true infection fatality rates ranged from zero % to 1.63%, with a corrected value of zero % to 1.54%.
Study author John Ioannidis noted that “The inferred median infection fatality rate in locations with a COVID-19 mortality rate lower than the global average is low (0.09%). If one could sample equally from all locations globally, the median infection fatality rate might be even substantially lower than the 0.23% observed in my analysis.”
SOURCE: World Health Organization October 14, 2020