[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

17 deaths out of 650 cases. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ls-for-a-month

2.6% death rate is much scarier than the flu.

Although, yes, appears much scarier than the flu, however, at this point it's too preliminary to hang your hat on fatality rate numbers. For practical reasons Italy stopped testing contacts of cases and only are testing people who show up with symptoms. Therefore in their situation, the numerator is most definitely understated while the denominator is tracked with almost perfect accuracy. Just something to think about.