[wildcard_redneck]

I think that because there are so many people who get the disease and then either have no symptoms or have very mild symptoms and thereby never see a doctor that the actual death rate might be much lower.

[gibsonguy]

CNBC..fueling panic and hysteria at every opportunity.

[ScottfromNJ]

“I think that because there are so many people who get the disease and then either have no symptoms or have very mild symptoms and thereby never see a doctor that the actual death rate might be much lower.”

There’s also likely plenty of unreported severe cases and deaths too, like in China, where many of those severe cases that result in death never get counted do to the lack of testing kits. So the 3.4% you’re currently seeing based on a sampling of nearly 100,000 reported global cases is likely pretty accurate. And that percentage is at a time when global healthcare systems are not yet too overwhelmed with the virus.

[calenel]

But in some places they are really on top of the cases and can give actual totals for infected rather than just assuming some arbitrary percentage of cases go unnoticed. They can apply those statistics to the places where they are not screening and get an idea of the total number of afflicted.

Or, maybe they are getting real numbers out of China, now.

[lepton]

I think that because there are so many people who get the disease and then either have no symptoms or have very mild symptoms and thereby never see a doctor that the actual death rate might be much lower.

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While that might turn out to be true, it is not relevant to this figure. This 3.4% figure is just plain bad and misleading math.