"In Italy, the death rate stands at about 13 percent, and in the United States, around 4.3 percent, according to the latest figures on known cases and deaths. Even in South Korea, where widespread testing helped contain the outbreak, 2 percent of people who tested positive for the virus have died, recent data shows."
Granted... those death rates are "known" cases which gets cut when you add no/low symptoms to the "unknown infected".
We are still gathering data and the numbers vary greatly depending on country and testing methods.
Which is my biggest point... it goes from 4%+ down to .5% or lower depending on how you spin the numbers.
Hard to take "projections" seriously with THAT much unknown data.
"The CDC modeled four scenarios and estimated that 200,000 to 1.7 million U.S. residents could die, the Times reported."
"Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing. If we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all of the things that we’re doing." -Trump
But I've seen higher death rates in public threads as a common theme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-death-rate...
"In Italy, the death rate stands at about 13 percent, and in the United States, around 4.3 percent, according to the latest figures on known cases and deaths. Even in South Korea, where widespread testing helped contain the outbreak, 2 percent of people who tested positive for the virus have died, recent data shows."
Granted... those death rates are "known" cases which gets cut when you add no/low symptoms to the "unknown infected".
We are still gathering data and the numbers vary greatly depending on country and testing methods.
Which is my biggest point... it goes from 4%+ down to .5% or lower depending on how you spin the numbers.
Hard to take "projections" seriously with THAT much unknown data.
edit: For the 2.2 million dead projection:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trump-and-the-coronavirus-...
"The CDC modeled four scenarios and estimated that 200,000 to 1.7 million U.S. residents could die, the Times reported."
"Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing. If we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all of the things that we’re doing." -Trump