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Where are people getting that it is just one or two percent?
The actual death rate isn't the number of deaths divided by the number of total cases. It's the number of deaths divided by the number of total closed cases. According to Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,588,963 Cases and 94,942 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer , based on worldwide data, it is 21%.
If you do the math with the US reported data, it's close to 40%, probably because in most areas, we are only counting cases that have been confirmed by testing, and testing still isn't widely available. Someone I know had symptoms, went to a place that was designated as a testing center, and was told that they probably had it, but they needed to save the tests for those who had severe cases.
So with our number of cases being under reported, it's likely that the actual death rate in the US is just a tenth of what the reported numbers show, but that's still close to 4%.
Most strains of the flu have a one tenth of one percent death rate, so covid-19, apparently, is at least 40 times more deadly. Or am I missing something.
The actual death rate isn't the number of deaths divided by the number of total cases. It's the number of deaths divided by the number of total closed cases. According to Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,588,963 Cases and 94,942 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer , based on worldwide data, it is 21%.
If you do the math with the US reported data, it's close to 40%, probably because in most areas, we are only counting cases that have been confirmed by testing, and testing still isn't widely available. Someone I know had symptoms, went to a place that was designated as a testing center, and was told that they probably had it, but they needed to save the tests for those who had severe cases.
So with our number of cases being under reported, it's likely that the actual death rate in the US is just a tenth of what the reported numbers show, but that's still close to 4%.
Most strains of the flu have a one tenth of one percent death rate, so covid-19, apparently, is at least 40 times more deadly. Or am I missing something.