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It's currently a little under 5% worldwide. There are on the order of 1 million cumulative cases and a bit under 50 thousand deaths. https://www.who.int/emerge

It's currently a little under 5% worldwide. There are on the order of 1 million cumulative cases and a bit under 50 thousand deaths. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2... Doesn't account for lack of testing, of course.

svachalek 7y ago
That also doesn't account for the exponential growth in number of cases; the people dying now are out of a much smaller cohort of confirmed cases in the past. Deaths / (Deaths + Recoveries) would be more like it, and that's a scary number.
- wool_gather 7y ago
  That's a very good point; unfortunately the WHO doesn't have a "closed case" statistic that I can see.