COVID - stats from NYT
Summary : It's 20 times deadlier than seasonal flu, they now say. 20% chance that illness will be severe to fatal.
Within 44,672 confirmed patients :
Fatality rate found : 2.3 percent.
Rate further increased in recent days.
"That is far higher than the mortality rate of the seasonal flu, with which the new coronavirus has sometimes been compared. In the United States, flu fatality rates hover around 0.1 percent."
- Mild illness : 81 percent of confirmed diagnoses.
- severe case of COVID-19 : 14 percent.
- Critial : 5 percent.
Age of dead :
Implying 20% were bellow < 60 yo.
Men are twice as likely to die than women even if both are infected :
"Though men and women were roughly equally represented among the confirmed cases, men made up nearly 64 percent of the deaths."
Patients with underlying medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes, died at higher rates.
Actually no new info here. This one confirms the rough estimation of numbers we were scared of in the first days.
It's deadly within a bad scale, and not like seasonal flu.