This is not quite the right way of looking at it! I think you’d have to look into what experts thought during the early months of the Swine flu outbreak. I haven’t researched this but I’ve read that early best estimates for Swine flu fatality were at least a factor of 5 higher than the true infection fatality rate, if not even higher. (The IMO misguded folks who think the IFR for Sars-CoV-2 could be as low as the flu’s are constantly pointing this out, failing to flag that this is far from a universal trend among outbreaks – e.g., early estimates of Sars-1 fatality turned out to be underestimates.)
That said, it seems plausible that even with my proposed adjustment, the numbers would still remain below the thresholds you list under “harm.” It depends on how much credence experts put on the higher end of the range during the early months of the Swine flu outbreak. I don’t know just how high the highest estimates were that still came from credible experts.
This is not quite the right way of looking at it! I think you’d have to look into what experts thought during the early months of the Swine flu outbreak. I haven’t researched this but I’ve read that early best estimates for Swine flu fatality were at least a factor of 5 higher than the true infection fatality rate, if not even higher. (The IMO misguded folks who think the IFR for Sars-CoV-2 could be as low as the flu’s are constantly pointing this out, failing to flag that this is far from a universal trend among outbreaks – e.g., early estimates of Sars-1 fatality turned out to be underestimates.)
That said, it seems plausible that even with my proposed adjustment, the numbers would still remain below the thresholds you list under “harm.” It depends on how much credence experts put on the higher end of the range during the early months of the Swine flu outbreak. I don’t know just how high the highest estimates were that still came from credible experts.