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Old Sep 3, 2020, 1:21 am
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Originally Posted by invisible
Than you. I have one follo-up question then. If mortality is 0.3%, how does this corresponds to the numbers here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVI..._and_territory

If 0.3% is the correct number then with 6m infected in US death should be 18k, not 188k - 10 times higher number which is 3% of mortality.

Or if 0.3% is the correct, then for US case 6m are only detected/diagnosed cases and in reality 60m or 20% of country population already had it.
Well, they don’t really know that precisely how many asymptomatic cases there are. They know diagnosed cases and some estimates of deaths. Deaths probably being higher than estimated. But I’m pretty sure the 6 million are detected cases.
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