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How does this information "About 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital. Of those who are admitted, most also recov
by teknopaul 6y ago
How does this information
"About 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital.
Of those who are admitted, most also recover but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation."
Get said along side a published ~10% death rate. There have 300,000 cases in the UK and 40,000 deaths.
- PureParadigm 6y agoIt's possible there are more than 300,000 cases, since not everyone with the virus gets tested, so you can't assume 40,000/300,000 is the true death rate. There are likely many with milder symptoms who do not get tested and recover without going to the hospital, so the true death rate is lower than the confirmed deaths/confirmed cases figure.
- jjjensen90 6y agoThere is no "death rate" metric. There is CFR (case fatality rate) and IFR (infection fatality rate). We know that there are many more infections than known cases, and serological studies point to total IFR <1%, with massive stratifications by age (<50 having extremely few fatalities, and >50 having increasing IFR every age bracket).
- GuB-42 6y agoThe best estimate, based on New York data, puts the death rate at 1.4% [1] The number of cases in the UK is likely to be underestimated by a factor of 10 because it only takes into account cases confirmed by testing, and not everyone is tested, especially not mild/asymptomatic cases. This is consistent with several other studies in various places. [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...