Now the rest of the story...
The initial data from China showed similar sky high numbers.
It then dropped to much more reasonable numbers. That pattern repeated at several locations. I don't know why that happens, but I do know THAT it happens. Perhaps it's the more vulnerable have a quick outcome? Or maybe it's a fluke due to a thin data set? 46 completed cases in a country of 350,000,000? That's really not a statistically meaningful sample.
World wide, the deaths/completed cases has been hovering around 6%. That's high, but it's not so high as to be a civilization killer.
We'll get through this.
You can’t even begin to get an accurate death rate until after you’ve done enough testing to have a reasonably accurate number of infected who did NOT die for the denominator.
We have not done anywhere remotely close to that much testing.
Denominator. I was a C math student but I stayed awake long enough to learn THAT much.
And my piehole is just fine thank you.