VIRUS HITTING CLOSE TO HOME

gdrill said

I'm not going argue with you over this. If you feel posting a 6% fatality rate is fine, then I have no problem with that.

For me, I KNOW it is inaccurate. It will do nothing more than create unnecessary fear among people.
That is my opinion.

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Well...If you do the math based on available statistics, only about 15% of people with symptoms who get tested are positive. If you extend that out to the general population of low symptom/asymtomatic cases, then about 6x the number of tested people have it also. That means taking the number of confirmed cases and multiplying by 6 and also taking the number of deaths and dividing by 6.

That gives a fatality rate of around 1% which is exactly what has been projected all along.

Still frightening...but not quite as frightening as a 6% mortality rate.