Less than 2% infected actually die from it.
Less than 2% of those reported as infected, have died-so-far.
More than half of those reported as infected...are still infected.
The raw numbers are higher than they will be after people have had it long enough to recover from it, and there are an unknown number of unknown cases (though until the ‘community infected’ began to show up, for those outside of China the number known to be infected and the number of actual infected were pretty close). That said, the 2% number is just innumerate silliness at this point.
The thing is this may very well come in several waves over the next year or two, and there’s no guarantee that the second wave won’t be even worse, as was the case in 1918.