CFR vs IFR has been a battle since this started.Hope you’re wrong
Where do you get that survival data, based off of known cases the survival rate is roughly 98% not 99.98%, do you have a source for that? Serious question not trying to be a smart ass.
This is too old to be of use, but those numbers are most likely pretty different. I think when people cite 99.x% survival they aren't using the known cases as the denominator. Obviously one is a guess and one isn't.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection fatality rates
An important unknown during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been the infection fatality rate (IFR). This differs from the case fatality rate (CFR) as an estimate of the number of deaths and as a proportion of the total number of cases, ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov