Confirmed cases make up only a fraction of total cases, without extensive active testing. Estimations say that only 10-20% are known.
Furthermore, there an incubation time from infection to diagnosis, and from diagnosis to (potential) death, so numbers are not that directly comparable.
Given above factors, overall mortality rate might be well below 1% even.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 12.3 ms ] threadConfirmed cases make up only a fraction of total cases, without extensive active testing. Estimations say that only 10-20% are known.
Furthermore, there an incubation time from infection to diagnosis, and from diagnosis to (potential) death, so numbers are not that directly comparable.
Given above factors, overall mortality rate might be well below 1% even.