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Originally Posted by Donger
Correct. That's the mortality rate as of right now. Adding deaths to recovery and then dividing by deaths doesn't give you anything, really.
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Everybody who currently has the disease will either recover, or die. Anybody who hasn't yet done one of those 2 things is an unknown. So the only cases that matter in terms of knowing the actual fatality rate are the people who either recovered or died.
Total people for whom the disease has run it's course:
45,660
Total people from the above group who died:
2,990
Fatality rate of people for whom the disease has run it's course:
6.5%