They also said in January that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission of Covid

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?s=21

They initially thought the death rate was 3.4% because they didn’t realize how many asymptomatic carriers Covid had.

Did you even read your own article:?

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,”

And my comments:?

The March figures were because they didn’t have good testing, and far more cases were around than were actually detected. Not because the virus got 10x less dangerous

That’s probably a high estimate of the CFR

And again that’s the CFR, not the IFR which is very low because a such a large percentages of Covid patients are asymptomatic.

Initially you said that Covid had a death rate of 3.4% “despite the most sophisticated global response to a disease in history”. So according to you the death rate was 3.4% even with lockdowns, yet now you’re saying that you only meant the initial death rate. Which isn’t even true because they had extremely poor testing measures at the start and didn’t realize there were a huge percentage of asymptomatic cases. Not to mention people that just didn’t get tested. The 3.4% was the CFR, not the IFR which is more reflective of the actual death rate. And clearly they don’t know the exact IFR but with new data after a year of this virus going around they know it’s less than 1% and not nearly 3.4%.