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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 4401671" data-attributes="member: 4805">That number comes from the <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/" target="_blank">WHO</a> and includes the following caveats:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">We don&#039;t know how many were infected (&quot;When you look at how many people have died, you need to look at how many people where infected, and right now we don&#039;t know that number. So it is early to put a percentage on that.&quot;[<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-1" target="_blank">1</a>][<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-2" target="_blank">2</a>]). </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The only number currently known is how many people have died out of those who have been reported to the WHO.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is therefore very early to make any conclusive statements about what the overall mortality rate will be for the novel coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization [<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-1" target="_blank">1</a>][<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-2" target="_blank">2</a>]. </li>
</ol>As we&#039;ve seen in South Korea, once you start getting a better handle on the actual number of infections, the fatality rate starts coming way down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 4401671, member: 4805"] That number comes from the [URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/']WHO[/URL] and includes the following caveats: [LIST=1] [*][I][B]We don't know how many were infected[/B] ("When you look at how many people have died, you need to look at how many people where infected, and right now we don't know that number. So it is early to put a percentage on that."[[URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-1']1[/URL]][[URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-2']2[/URL]]). [/I] [*][I]The only number currently known is how many people have died out of those who have been reported to the WHO.[/I] [*][I]It is therefore [B]very early to make any conclusive statements about what the overall mortality rate will be[/B] for the novel coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization [[URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-1']1[/URL]][[URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/#ref-2']2[/URL]]. [/I] [/LIST] As we've seen in South Korea, once you start getting a better handle on the actual number of infections, the fatality rate starts coming way down. [/QUOTE]

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