Because the murdering faggot weaponized it, by encouraging people to ride the subways and buses, putting CV patients (complete with body bags) in a nursing home with otherwise uninfected residents.
For that, I have retagged the weaponized ChiCom bioweapon as:
CUOMOVIRUS!
Even so, no one can say what the actual death rate is.
How can you know when you cannot say who has had it or not?
Every time somebody tries to find out and collects such data, it shows far, far more people have actually had it. Asymptomatic or just a few coughs and sniffles and it has gone through the population.
New York APPEARS to have a 10% death rate but they’re only testing sick people, and most of them are from a huge, many millions strong, densely-packed city. Give EVERY New Yorker the test, including people living in Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Binghamton, and every other village and town and I’ll bet you that percentage goes down to less than 1 percent.
The real answer is nobody yet knows, except when they start checking more than the declared sick, the percentage goes DOWN.