It's a largely academic question, at least in terms of mortality and treatment. If you're asymptomatic, you're unlikely to get tested, and you'll never even kno

It's a largely academic question, at least in terms of mortality and treatment. If you're asymptomatic, you're unlikely to get tested, and you'll never even know you had it. On the other hand, if you have enough symptoms to be tested, you have a higher mortality risk than asymptomatic cases by definition, so the overall mortality rate doesn't matter to you anyway. Where it does matter (a lot) is in containment, where we should assume many more people are contagious than the reported cases, so the average individual risk of catching it is much higher.