Why can so many of you not even do a simple Google search or run basic math?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
We already have pretty good data on # “confirmed” infected, though the # actually infected is likely to be orders of magnitude higher.
We also have good data on fatalities, although I’m sure not “every” fatality has been reported or recorded.
Using the numbers easily searched, we’re currently at a 3.6% death rate worldwide.
The flu kills (on average), 0.1% of people yearly.
Ergo, CV-19 is 36X more deadly than the flu using currently reported numbers.
I am actually quite good at math. You or anyone else hasn’t the first clue how many are infected with this virus and without THAT # there is NO WAY to even begin to have an accurate number for the kill rate.
Your 3.6% death rate is based on the number of KNOWN cases of this virus but what if that number of known cases is 10 or 100 times higher? If it is 10 times higher the death rate becomes .36% and if it is 100 times higher the rate becomes .036%.
We will not have the first clue of how many contracted this virus until it is finished and even then we will NEVER know how many caught this virus and never knew it and never was tested for it.
Your 3.6% fatality number is 100% bogus.
Italy is worse. Iran’s reporting is crap, so we can’t count on their numbers: but a number of their bigwigs, as well as the head of Hezbollah, reportedly have it or have died from it, so I don’t think we can believe their containment / mitigation are working very well.