03-18-2020, 09:24 AM
(03-18-2020, 07:40 AM)sbarrera Wrote: Are mortality rates ever calculated from actual infections vs. known cases? How could you ever measure the former?
Yes; the "actual infections" are estimated rather than measured. This is how the 0.1% flu fatality rate is derived.
If you look only at confirmed cases, the flu fatality rate is in the range of 10%-25%, way higher than for Covid-19. We know there are a lot of flu cases that are never tested for, though.