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by drinkcocacola 2214 days ago
Well, I've been following numbers for the last two months in different countries from different sources. My initial best estimations were that the fatality rate was about 0.77% given the numbers in South Korea (high number of tests). Other countries such Spain were reporting rates of about 10%, however testing was quite low in comparison.

Recently Spain did a seroprevalence test (number of people with antibodies for Coronavirus) with a large sample of people. They found that 5% of the population had antibodies (2.4M people). Which means that the fatality rate is actually about 1.1% and not 10%.

This numbers (from 0.77% to 1.16%) have been constant in different countries, so let me express my disbelief with the numbers published by the CDC.