That’s known as the IFR. It means the chance of dying if you get the illness.
It shows the percentage of infected people that consequently die of that illness.
A very important number.
That generally we are not told. In the beginning because it was not known – in the middle because the media didn’t care, being more interesting in whipping up the fever and the hype and promoting panic lockdowns and now – I don’t know. Shame perhaps. They (media, politicians, et al) don’t want the truth to come out until they’ve prepared some ‘ass-covering’ stories.
Well here’s an authoritative report – Mr John Ioannidis again, a much ignored authority from the very beginning – mentioned in an article from the Spectator magazine.
He estimates the true figure to be in a range always below 0.5%
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v1.full.pdf
and this is the Spectator article: