We need to keep this in perspective. Naturally if you or a loved one were to die from this the statistics mean nothing to you. However, the odds of dying from corona are not very big. Corona could kill me. I am old enough with a less than perfect body meaning I have some risk of death from this virus. However, the odds against this virus killing me support my surviving it. I do not recall all of the panic buying with the the other pandemic panics in past years.
What's the death rate of coronavirus vs. the flu? How likely are you to die if you get it?
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Coronavirus has a death rate that varies somewhat based on demographics.
The China CDC Weekly reported the results of a major epidemiological study into this question. That study analyzed 72,314 patient records, including some that were suspected cases. It determined that
coronavirus had an “overall case fatality rate of 2.3%.” The study was called
Vital Surveillances: The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) and it was conducted by the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team.
However,
USA Today, on March 13, 2020, put the death rate as higher; “Of the more than 127,000 people who have been infected worldwide, more than 4,700 have died. That’s a death rate of about
3.7%, and the WHO has previously estimated the rate at about 3.4%,” the newspaper reported.
What’s the death rate from the flu? How many people die from it? Some estimates give the case fatality rate with seasonal flu in the United States as less than 0.1%.
Mortality rate for SARS was 10%, and for
MERS 34%. The New York Times puts the death rate for
flu at typically around 0.1% in the U.S., according to The New York Times.
