I was just looking at the cdc page and all I found were deaths per 100,000 which isn’t helpful.
You must have the number infected to determine the death rate of the flu. If you can find the number infected for any given year, then please post a link.
Same with this corona virus. They are just going off the number of confirmed cases and the confirmed deaths. Yet, everyone says that the number of cases is actually much greater and has been assumed to be flu. So, we really don’t have solid numbers with corona, either.
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I’ve posted several times (though maybe not in here) that the Princess cruise ship will give us a very good estimate of the death rate if we just follow the first 600 cases. We can probably assume they’re getting reasonable care, for starters. With a total sample of 600, it will even be possible to break it into several subgroups by age ranges, sex, some pre-existing conditions, and ethnicity, for example.
We know they all have it, and by a month from now we’ll know how many survived, how many required acute care, and how many died. That will be the best sample we have, in my opinion anyway. And if it turns out to be low, say one percent or so, we’ll be able to relax a bit even if it spreads widely. But if it’s much above that....Well, one percent is over 3 million in the U.S. alone, and over 70 million world wide.