I’ve been taking COVID-19 very seriously from the start (my comment history would back this claim), but the first concrete statement in this article about the d

I’ve been taking COVID-19 very seriously from the start (my comment history would back this claim), but the first concrete statement in this article about the danger of COVID-19 is > Last week, the World Health Organization assessed the fatality rate at a shocking 3.4 percent, much higher than previously believed. And that’s very misleading. Here’s what WHO director general actually said [1] > Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. Which is accurate, but that’s not WHO’s accessed fatality rate. I’ve seen media roll with this accurate stat and twist it into things it isn’t, and it makes my stomach turn. Maybe they’re trying to overturn the earlier things are all good narrative, but this kind of misleading reporting doesn’t inspire confidence at all. [1] https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---3-march-2020 https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-... Edit: can’t respond on a dead article, but I’m not saying case fatality rate can’t be as high as 3.4%. It could even be higher when hospitals are overwhelmed, e.g. in Wuhan. But (reported) case fatality rate isn’t fatality rate among all infected, and certainly isn’t fatality rate among the entire population. Look no further than another comment claiming “For context, 3.4% would kill 329,000 people in the SF Bay Area” to see how people are misled.