[Williams]

This claims a 5% death rate?

[Bell Bouy II]

Not a low number if your one of that 5%

[catnipman]

“This claims a 5% death rate?”

no one knows the death rate because all we know is how many have died, but not how many have been infected and didn’t die, and without knowing how many have been infected and didn’t die, then we can’t compute a death rate ...

[familyop]

"This claims a 5% death rate?"

We won't know what the death rate is, until the cases are all resolved (deaths and recoveries).

[familyop]

This is what has been reported for the United States so far today. We’ll see the totals later tonight. Yesterday’s counts were 241,626 cases and 5,821 deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology

United States

Cases 273,409

Deaths 7,064

Recoveries 12,044