[daniel1212]

Let’s just agree that the mortality rate for persons tested for Coronavirus who are ill is about 4% and leave it at that. Meanwhile, on the subject of this thread: “950 Sailors Now Have COVID-19; 2nd USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailor in Intensive Care”

Stating a fact is one thing, but it is another thing when it is done as part of an argument that is misleading.

[Nero Germanicus]

The number of recorded coronavirus cases is a fact. So is the number of recorded deaths.
As of five minutes ago those numbers were 667,572 reported cases and 33,903 recorded deaths in the U.S. That yields a mortality rate of 5.07% JUST AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE.
The overall fatality rate is much lower because many people who have the virus show mild or no symptoms and aren’t being tested.
In Michigan 25,635 people have tested positive and the case fatality rate stands at 6.3 percent, the highest level in the country. New York has recorded 10,056 deaths out of 195,031 cases, a fatality rate of 5.1 percent. And in Washington, where an early outbreak claimed dozens of lives at a nursing home, the case fatality rate stands at 5 percent.