[Mr Ramsbotham]

There are currently 19,843 confirmed cases worldwide, including 426 fatalities.

That's not a very high fatality rate, and the confirmed cases don't include those who may have contracted it and are either asymptomatic or don't have it badly enough to seek treatment, in which case they undoubtedly don't know they have it. Heck, any one of us might have already had it.

[janetjanet998]

That’s not a very high fatality rate

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if you say so..

do you think the 1000’s in serious or critical condition will some how all live?

[Magic Fingers]

“That’s not a very high fatality rate, and the confirmed cases don’t include those who may have contracted it and are either asymptomatic or don’t have it badly enough to seek treatment...”

Neither does it include people who have died from it (outside a hospital setting) and haven’t been diagnosed.

[SteelCowboy]

That's not a very high fatality rate

You realize it takes time to die, right? When you have 2500 new cases a day, your infections are growing more rapidly. You want to see the true death rate, assume an average time to die, 2 days, 5 days, and extrapolate total deaths from what the total count of infected was 2-5 days ago. The numbers are terrifying.

[ScottfromNJ]

“That’s not a very high fatality rate”

Assuming the Chinese government isn’t underreporting the number of fatalities.

[LilFarmer]

I believe the fatality rate should be the ratio of people that died today compared to the number of confirmed cases x number of days ago. The x number of days is the average duration of illness - onset to death. Estimates are anywhere from 6-14 days.

[steve86]

“Heck, any one of us might have already had it”

It is still believed that human exposure to 2019nCoV began Oct 1, 2019 at the earliest, in China.

Not enough time for people all over the world to have been exposed to it.

And if a person had been exposed they generally would evidence antibodies which they don’t.