The fatality rate must be based on confirmed cases, anything else is BS. For the U.S its now 5.4%
It simply means that 5.4% of those with confirmed infections will die.
Its a highly infectious disease that came out of a Chinese military weapons lab. The issue should be getting medicines, tests, and other medical supplies out to the public ASOP, rather than denial.
No, I don’t think that that is correct. Or maybe I am misunderstanding you.
I think that a huge number of people had it, had little or now symptoms, >were not tested for it< and recovered and important! — were not counted in the statistics.
Here the way to look at it.
If 5 people out of 100 died then that is a 5% mortality rate. Where did the 100 of infected people number come from? From people who just so happens, happen chance?, were tested for it. Probably because the had symptoms and suspected that they might have it. Or other reasons.
Now, if that 100 number is actually 1000 or 900 people were exposed but weren’t tested then the mortality rate drops by 10.
The mortality rate becomes 0.5%. A significantly less number.
Testing is still very hard to come by. I think it’s mostly people sick enough to go to the hospital who get tested. There are a lot of people toughing it out on their own who never get tested, and never head to the hospital.