What is the True Death Rate of COVID-19?

Looking at a complex question a year on

Pictured: The same header I used a year ago. There’s some meaning in that, although what exactly is anyone’s guess. Source: Pexels

A year ago, I spent a few weeks looking into the infection fatality rate of COVID-19. At the time, this was a minor side-project I could do in the extra time I had saved because I was working from home during lockdown and no longer had a 1.5-hour commute twice a day. It was a fascinating, complex problem, but also relatively…