The biggest uncertainty surrounds the number of people who have been infected with the coronavirus. The official count has surpassed 100,000, but the true number is probably much higher.
If 100 people become infected with the new coronavirus from China, how many will die?Medial workers wearing protective gear move a patient infected with the coronavirus disease from an ambulance to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday.The calculation was made by comparing the total number of people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 to the number of people who died of it. As both of those numbers grew, the ratio was bound to shift.
"It's not a statistic to be looking at kind of on an ongoing basis, even though I do it just as much as everybody else does," he admitted. Neither were people who wanted to be tested but weren't because of a lack of resources. In a situation where test kits are limited, it's better to save them for 80-year-olds with poor lung function and skip the healthier 40-year-olds with mild illness.For instance, the authors of the study of nearly 45,000 Chinese patients noted that the case-fatality rate in Hubei, the province at the centre of the outbreak, was 2.9 per cent. Elsewhere in China, it was 0.4 per cent.
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