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The Most Important Coronavirus Number Is How Many Survive
Given the statistics, our focus should be on the most at-risk and slowing the spread for society in general.
18 Mar 2020, 03:44 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It’s quite unlikely that you will die of Covid‑19. The case fatality rate as tracked by the World Health Organization officially stands at 3.5%, but that calculation misses out on a lot of unreported cases in the denominator. In South Korea, where testing for the new coronavirus has been most widespread, the fatality rate is about 0.7%. Then again, in Italy, which has also done a lot of testing, it’s 6.2%.
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