[Spoppys]

We don't know the death rate of nCov-2019, because we don't know how many people are infected, and we don't know how many people are dying.

[raducu]

Do we really know how many people are infected with the flu? I'm sure only the more severe cases get tested for both.

[gdubs]

I’m totally out of my element here but I’d wager that because the flu is much more pervasive we’re able to extract more reliable statistics, even if it’s from a relatively small sample set.

[raducu]

I'm no statistics expert, but given they can predict election outcomes from samples of a couple thousand people for tens of milions of voters, 40k+ infected with coronavirus is enough to have a very good idea about death rates.