WORLDVIEW: Why Covid-19 fatality rates are all wrong

The Covid-19 crisis is moving fast, which makes it hard to study. One thing is clear, however: we have no idea how lethal the virus is.
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The Covid-19 crisis is a fast-moving target, which makes it hard to study. One thing seems clear, however: our understanding of how lethal the virus is has a long way to go.

Initial fatality rates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that around 3.4% of people infected by the novel coronavirus who develop Covid-19 would die. Since then, we have seen a very wide range of national fatality rates.

The table below shows the current best data for the world overall and the 15 countries with the highest number of reported cases (please note that all the numbers presented here are current at the time of writing, but obviously will change daily).

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