[ma2rten]

Coronavirus has death rate of 1-2%. It might be slightly higher if the health care system gets overwhelmed, but the US has a head start on Italy/China in terms of social distancing measures.

[varjag]

3.4%

[ma2rten]

That number is a crude estimate based on reported cases. The real number of cases is obviously higher than the ones being reported.

[D_Alex]

>The real number of cases is obviously higher than the ones being reported.

Yes... and the number of dead people will also obviously be higher - because the disease has not yet run its course in all of the reported cases.

Here is Lancet from 12 March estimating 5.7% final mortality rate among confirmed cases.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[varjag]

These are WHO figures. You are speculating.

[ma2rten]

While the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...