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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by headmelted on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:58PM (#22549109)
About 240x as fatal.

The mortality rate is presently 6.01% and fluctuating, making this virus about twice as deadly as the Spanish Flu.

Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by zuminator on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:10PM (#22549286)
You've claimed this three times already. Do you have a substantiating link? Furthermore, saying "six point oh one percent" instead of just "approximately six percent" gives a false air of precision that could not possibly hold -- even you admit the estimate is still in flux.
Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by headmelted on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:52PM (#22551664)
At the risk of compounding the problem of having posted this in several places, copying into this reply:

Taking Johns Hopkins numbers (at time of me writing this):

125,108 confirmed cases 4594 deaths 66,682 recoveries 71,276 outcomes 4,594 / 71,276 = 6.45% have died (deaths / outcomes)