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Number of deaths in NYC divided by total population is 15,000/8,000,000. This already puts the fatality rate at at least 0.2.

But the consequences are far from over and the number of deaths will keep climbing, so your "fatality rate may be as low as 0.10-0.20%" is completely off the mark.

edit: I am sorry if my tone was interpreted as confrontational. I otherwise agree with the parent's post that we need much more antibody testing.

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Feel free to take it up with the Stanford researchers and the LA county health commissioner. I'm simply sharing their reports.

You are taking their preliminary, non-peer reviewed data and making poorly founded arguments on top of them.

I am simply trying to slow the spread of non-sensical numbers. The total population divided by number of deaths provide a factual lower bound and arguing against that is not sensible.

Flaws in the Stanford study has already been highlighted extensively, see for instance https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... and the insightful comments. The issue is not to take it up with the authors but whether the authors might listen and take back what they claimed on popular political TV shows. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjCitwKJSQ

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