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Re:Spreadsheet of San Francisco Bay Area Covid-19 Data and C... by wool_gather on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:07PM (#22763144)
It's currently a little under 5% worldwide. There are on the order of 1 million cumulative cases and a bit under 50 thousand deaths.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

Doesn't account for lack of testing, of course.

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Re:Spreadsheet of San Francisco Bay Area Covid-19 Data and C... by svachalek on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:14PM (#22763207)
That also doesn't account for the exponential growth in number of cases; the people dying now are out of a much smaller cohort of confirmed cases in the past.

Deaths / (Deaths + Recoveries) would be more like it, and that's a scary number.

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Re:Spreadsheet of San Francisco Bay Area Covid-19 Data and C... by wool_gather on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:18PM (#22763243)
That's a very good point; unfortunately the WHO doesn't have a "closed case" statistic that I can see.
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