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I haven't seen anything credible (with supporting studies) saying as high as 1% since March.

It's probably below .4% Depends on the population age. But probably reasonably below .4%

"Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27%" https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

I suspect it will continue to drop. It seems to hit those it harms the most first and spreads quickly with them. Plus medical is getting better.

Meta analysis shows an average of 0.68%[1], slowly decreasing as treatments get more effective.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

It’s about 0.6% COVID versus 0.1% seasonal influenza in the US. However, note that the latter figure is the IFR for the “typical” flu. The sentence quoted notes “all other flu-like viruses” - of which there are varieties that are less and more dangerous. Given that qualifier, the quoted sentence doesn’t seem obviously false to me.