03-18-2020, 07:40 AM
(03-17-2020, 11:43 PM)Mickey123 Wrote:(03-17-2020, 10:18 PM)sbarrera Wrote: I'm seeing much higher mortality rates than 0.2%
https://www.worldometers.info/coronaviru...Y4eDfIK9Hg
Nobody knows exactly what the mortality rate of the coronavirus is yet.
The current figures you're seeing are derived by taking the number of deaths and dividing by the number of confirmed cases. But the number of actual cases is much, much higher than the number of confirmed cases. The real number of cases might be, depending on location, twice as high, or 5 times as high, or 10 times as high, or more. So the true mortality rate is going to be a fraction of what is being reported.
Are mortality rates ever calculated from actual infections vs. known cases? How could you ever measure the former?
Steve Barrera
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