Yes, it does have a very low mortality rate.
The highest is Italy, with 4%, and Germany has kept it as low as 0.4%.
So this is not the big threat some fear it might have become.
China shows the total is not that bad, since they are over it mostly.
But what we DO have to remember is that COVID-19 is not going away.
Everyone will get it eventually, if not this year, then in one of the following years.
And it will get more lethal over time.
The safest way to get resistance is to get it sooner rather than later.
However, if they get a successful vaccine, that would be best.
we do not know the actual mortality rate because we do not know exactly how many people have had the virus and recovered without seeking medical assistance or who met the threshold for a Dr to recommend they get tested
The same is true for the flu.
The same metrics are being used here.
The coronavirus is 13.5 times more fatal than the flu.
No, it is not. The fatality rate of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus when dividing confirmed deaths by confirmed infections is about 3%. In the US, there were 3,433 confirmed deaths and 115,318 confirmed infections. This, of course, ignores the massive number of people who caught the flu that year and were never tested and never got that sick. This is also happening with the Coronavirus.
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The figure of .03% fatality rate is when you take the WHO estimated 300,000 worldwide deaths divided by the estimated 1 billion infections. Do you really believe a billion people actually tested positive? How many people do you think they tested, 2 or 3 billion? All they can do is estimate the number of likely infections.
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