You can’t look at “total cases” because most of those are still sick, and some will die.
Even then, 2800 deaths over 82000 confirmed cases is closer to 3%.
Re: You can’t look at “total cases” because most of those are still sick, and some will die.
You need to explain that to the CDC - not to me.
The CDC is counting “total case” death rates because that is the only hard data point they have to work with at the moment.
In China, the “Case Fatality Rate” (CFR) has been quite steady at 2% to 3.5%.
98% of total deaths have been inside China.
In the USA and Canada - six weeks after corona went international - our CFR is still zero.
Obviously, the “Recovered” rate is very important.
But, with a novel virus, standards for “Recovered” can be highly subjective, and there is no way to know if “Recovered” cases are being reported in a timely fashion.