Study of 72,000 COVID-19 patients finds 2.3% death rate
Even the WHO which is bought off by China and is downplaying the virus is using those numbers.
Aylward said that across China, about 80% of cases are mild, about 14% are severe, and about 6% become critically ill. The case fatality rate — the percentage of known infected people who die — is between 2% and 4% in Hubei province, and 0.7% in other parts of China, he said. The lower rate outside of Hubei is likely due to the draconian social distancing measures China has put in place to try to slow spread of the virus. Other parts of China have not had the huge explosion of cases seen in Hubei, Aylward said.https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-buttress-fears-about-high-coronavirus-fatality-rate-who-expert-says/
Note that the fatality rate is lower when you take draconian action. So that's what we need to be ready to do. Pretending it isn't a big deal is what screwed China in the beginning. We can't make that mistake.
I wasn't suggesting that we do.