No, you're misunderstanding that number. That's the crude case mortality rate, of deaths per confirmed cases. They say the infection mortality rate, which is de

No, you're misunderstanding that number. That's the crude case mortality rate, of deaths per confirmed cases. They say the infection mortality rate, which is deaths per infection, will be lower. edit: see, e.g. here https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200306-sitrep-46-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=96b04adf_2 https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...