> The mortality rate of Covid-19 seems higher than that.
Sure if you intentionally mislead people by cherrypicking data.
> The around 3% mortality rate is what you get by dividing the number of deaths by the number of infection (past and present) (as of today: 5359 / 140875 = 3.8%).
140875 is the number of confirmed and tested infections. The number of actual infections is certainly much higher. So the mortality rate is most likely much lower than 3.8%. After all, most coronavirus infections are mild for the vast majority of people.
> If you divide the number of deaths by (recovered + deaths), the mortality is much higher (as of today: 5359 / (70174 + 5359) = 7.1%).
Sure if you ignore the hundreds of thousands of infected who "recovered" from mild symptoms.
> If it were to spread rapidly and overload our health systems, the mortality rate could rise even more, let's hope it doesn't reach that level.
The standard pattern. Try to fearmonger with intentionally misleading stats and then try to come off as a good samaritan. Why do all the coronavirus fearmongering comments all follow the same template?
Sure if you intentionally mislead people by cherrypicking data.
> The around 3% mortality rate is what you get by dividing the number of deaths by the number of infection (past and present) (as of today: 5359 / 140875 = 3.8%).
140875 is the number of confirmed and tested infections. The number of actual infections is certainly much higher. So the mortality rate is most likely much lower than 3.8%. After all, most coronavirus infections are mild for the vast majority of people.
> If you divide the number of deaths by (recovered + deaths), the mortality is much higher (as of today: 5359 / (70174 + 5359) = 7.1%).
Sure if you ignore the hundreds of thousands of infected who "recovered" from mild symptoms.
> If it were to spread rapidly and overload our health systems, the mortality rate could rise even more, let's hope it doesn't reach that level.
The standard pattern. Try to fearmonger with intentionally misleading stats and then try to come off as a good samaritan. Why do all the coronavirus fearmongering comments all follow the same template?