I actually would have guessed they were pretty close. Apparently I was wrong: The following claims 5% vs .2% https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-deat

I actually would have guessed they were pretty close. Apparently I was wrong: The following claims 5% vs .2% https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-us-compared-to-flu-by-age-2020-6?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-us-co... Then again this chart seems to indicate something closer to 2% of confirmed cases are fatal for Covid: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-deaths-and-cases-covid-19?time=2020-01-22..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-deaths-and-cases-co... I imagine more non-fatal Covid cases go unreported than fatal ones so perhaps even that's high, but it's still close to an order of magnitude worse than the flu. Edit: That first source isn't great, and is outdated anyways. This one seems to verify the ~2% for Covid in the US. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality