https://reason.com/2020/05/24/the-c...a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-below-0-3/
The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current "best estimate" for the fatality rate among Americans with COVID-19 symptoms is 0.4 percent. The CDC also estimates that 35 percent of people infected by the COVID-19 virus never develop symptoms. Those numbers imply that the virus kills less than 0.3 percent of people infected by it—far lower than the infection fatality rates (IFRs) assumed by the alarming projections that drove the initial government response to the epidemic, including broad business closure and stay-at-home orders.
You should realize that the CDC paper provides 5 planning scenarios with different parameters. The CDC website paper does not state the Infection Fatality Rate is 0.3%.
It takes some really twisted media articles to push this fabricated narrative based on the CDC information.