Wonderful. Throw all the numbers out from China and Iran, then.
An apples-to-apples comparison is South Korea where the death rate in confirmed cases in 0.7.
The Wu Flu maniacs have consistently overestimated the impact of this bug on the US. There no factual basis to think that will change any time soon.
South Korea is the most accurate dataset. And it shows 7x worse than the flu
Really? SK had a huge number of positive 10-13 days ago, padding their numbers. Those cases are now moving toward "resolving". In just 3 days, their CFR, or "death rate" as you call it, has crept up to 0.9% It will continue to rise, probably settling at 1.2% - 1.5%. We will only be like South Korea if the actions we are taking are effective and people listen to the advice they are getting.
“An apples-to-apples comparison is South Korea where the death rate in confirmed cases in 0.7.”
Was, a few days back. Now up to 0.8% or so. The guy that was denying the numbers then claimed 99% of the remaining cases were mild (but provided no source). Wouldn’t accept that with the comprehensive testing and contact tracing that SK was doing that the 0.7% number could ONLY go up. Still true.
You can’t assume that all the unresolved cases will resolve favorably. The actual CFR is still over 11% - not the horrifying number it was a few days ago, but still pretty bad. Eventually the CFR and the DCR will converge, but because SK is doing such a thorough job it will be something higher than the current 0.8% the DCR stands at, now.
CFR - Case Fatality Rate = deaths/(deaths+recoveries)
DCR - Deaths to Cases Ratio = deaths/cases