Even the total cases numbers are misleading.
“So far, New York has clocked 37,258 confirmed cases and 385 deaths from COVID-19”
What is that like 0.1%?
1% of confirmed cases, but it’s misleading if comparing to other illnesses. Since COVID-19 likely isn’t observable in the first week, total number of cases might be 10x as high, so death rate might be 0.1%.