30 people.
That is 0.002%
This is the real numbers of COVID, they can't fudge these numbers because it would be too easy to track. This might be common knowledge, I just thought it was very telling.
Sauce: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/16/militarys-coronavirus-cases-latest-rundown.html
Yes, the number is tiny, especially among the troops who have a younger average age than if you include all the contractors etc. And I think you made a great point about it being numbers they can't fudge because it would be discovered.
For civilians it was not a good thing that the CDC is the gatekeeper for all the information. I feel like they spend most of their time doing exactly that - figuring out how they can fudge the numbers.