– How is the <1% fatality rate reported in some media for COVID-19 calculated?
Looking at the numbers as of now, there have been just over 88,000 cases and 3,001 deaths in the COVID-19 outbreak so far. This gives a fatality rate of around 3.3%. When looking at cases which have been closed (either recovered or died), the rate is closer to 7%. This seems hard to reconcile with the media reports saying the rate is below 1% and at worse maybe 2%?
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Number of deaths / number of infected people
So if you have 100 infected and 1 dead, thats a rate of 1/100 – or 1%
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