WSJ: Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude

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“If our surmise of six million cases is accurate, that’s a mortality rate of 0.01%, assuming a two week lag between infection and death. This is one-tenth of the flu mortality rate of 0.1%. Such a low death rate would be cause for optimism.”

“Since Italy’s case fatality rate of 8% is estimated using the confirmed cases, the real fatality rate could in fact be closer to 0.06%.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
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WSJ
Opinion | Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.

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