I think they will find that in fact this virus has a lower death rate then the flu
Not a chance. Flu is about 0.1%. Literally EVERYTHING we know about this, so far, suggests it's well above that.
There were a lot of people that lost their minds about the WHO saying 3.4% based on confirmed cases, but anyone paying attention knew that missed the uncounted cases and the real rate would be much lower. Heck, right now the death rate based on
confirmed cases in the US is 5.66%. Bear in mind that's undoubtedly low, because the rate of new confirmed cases is high and it takes some patients a while to die, so the death rate based on TODAY's confirmed cases will grow.
But literally if you take the max upper bound of the Santa Clara study, which said that it was 28x to 55x actual infections compared to confirmed case rates, the MINIMUM extrapolation is 0.1%. If you take the New York study that suggests a 10x rate, you're looking at .56%.
If this comes in anywhere near, much less below, the flu, I'll be shocked.