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> Corona virus has infected fewer than 100,000 people and killed less than 1000. Of the 42,638 who have caught coronavirus, 1,016 have died, and 3,996 people h
by nwallin 7y ago
> Corona virus has infected fewer than 100,000 people and killed less than 1000.
Of the 42,638 who have caught coronavirus, 1,016 have died, and 3,996 people have recovered.
Because it's not simply ongoing but accelerating, we can't say the fatality rate is simply 1k/42k = 2.4%. The overwhelming majority of the people who have caught the disease still have the disease, and we can't say for sure that it is not going to kill them. We can say for sure that the mortality rate is significantly higher than 2.4%.
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