Originally Posted by
MaxQ
Would not a more accurate fatality rate be the ratio of deaths vs deaths+recovered?
Or perhaps deaths vs total hospitalized?
To add to all this it has become very political, especially the last month or so, where the number of those infected, or fatalities from, have become suspect from a number of different states. How many hospitalized? How many critical? How much contact tracing? WTF knows. There does not seem to be any universal standard of data reporting.
Considering that the US was officially briefed about Covid 19 on Jan. 3rd, this has been about as uncoordinated and disfunctional a response imaginable.
deaths / deaths+recovered would typically work, but we don't know nearly what the 'recovered' number is. As we know now, there are a lot of cases that are completely asymptomatic or very mild, and would not show up unless tested.