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Originally Posted by Paul
Using those figures ;
If you ignore the "suspected" cases then The fatality rate is 2.2%.
The infection rate (using a world population of 7.7 Billion) is 0.0000087%.
If you include the suspected, the fatality rate is 2.0%, the infection rate is still only 0.00001%.
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Fatality rates are calculated based on those who have died having caught the disease, not on the general population.