1 to 2 percent for fatalities among the symptomatic seems to be the consensus for now — but, read on.
You need to read the entire article below to get all the information about the difficulty and process for identifying what the death rate is for a new disease that has just emerged, aka COVID-19.
Why it’s so hard to pin down the risk of dying from coronavirus
When you hear numbers tossed around about the fatality rate of COVID-19, there is more to the story and what the population is that you are using to establish the death rate. Infected, symptomatic?
Covering the before, during and after of events that are impacting communities around the world.