36,842 / (36,842 + 59,328) = .383, or 38.3%
36,842 / (36,842 + (52,328 * 10)) = 36,842 / (36,842 + 523,280) = .073, or 7.3%
36,842 / (36,842 + (52,328 * 50)) = 36,842 / (36,842 + 1,842,100) = 0.14, or 1.4%
36,842 / (36,842 + (52,328 * 85)) = 36,842 / (36,842 + 4,447,880) = .008, or 0.8%
gas_dr, I'm not twisting anything. The numbers are what they are. Take them or leave them, as you will.
I limited my calculations to closed cases because that's how the case fatality rate is calculated. The mortality rate, which includes currently active cases is a different statistic, with a different meaning.
See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/:
An alternative method, which has the advantage of not having to estimate a variable, and that is mentioned in the American Journal of Epidemiology study cited previously as a simple method that nevertheless could work reasonably well if the hazards of death and recovery at any time t measured from admission to the hospital, conditional on an event occurring at time t, are proportional, would be to use the formula:
CFR = deaths / (deaths + recovered)