What's the source for that figure, as it would appear low given the number of deaths with Covid as explained before.
From here:
Likewise from here:
Report 34 - COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio: Estimates from Seroprevalence
www.imperial.ac.uk
Whilst both cite data from about a year ago, and whilst it's possible that the rate has fallen, it would be interesting to see the source for a rate 1/10th of those values as that would be quitea significant fall.
It should be noted that at 0.096% there would be in the UK (where there's a population of 67 million) a total of 64,500 deaths assuming everyone had been infected (which clearly isn't the case given that there's still over 50,000 a day testing positive for it). Even with people dying of other things "with" Covid that's quite a long way below the 144,000 current death rate (which probably also doesn't count quite a few who died early on).
If you believe the rate of 0.096% how do you explain that significant difference in recorded deaths?
Now I'm not suggesting that this is the case (in part as it would give a rate of nearly 10% which also isn't right) however there have been people caught out when working out percentage as they get a figure on their calculator saying 0.001 when they divide (say) deaths by population.
Note that isn't 0.001% but rather 0.1%, as to get from deaths divided by population to a percentage you then have to multiply by 100.
As a worked example 100,000/67,220,000 = 0.0014876524
To make that a percentage you then:
0.0014876524 x 100 = 0.14876524%
Therefore even allowing for some non Covid deaths "with Covid", but everyone having had Covid once the rate of death appears to be about 50% higher than 0.096%.
The other thing to watch is that the figures aren't for those (say) under 50 as their rate will be much lower than someone much older.
In the government document linked above; someone aged 44-64 is 0.5%, whilst someone aged 65-74 is 3.1%.
Given that someone in their 60's will be dragging the average up for the others in the 44-64 age band, and those below 44 are at very low risk. It's not unreasonable to work out a figure for (say) under 50's which could be quite a bit lower than the overall average.