The death rate from the novel coronavirus is higher than first thought, the World Health Organization has admitted.
“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” the organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Tuesday — markedly higher than all the initial predictions.
Early reports had pegged the death rate at 2.3 percent, while a study of the virus’ spread in China published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine had it even lower, at just 1.4%.
“By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected,” Tedros noted, saying that COVID-19 “causes more severe disease.”
“While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity,” he said, noting 3,110 deaths recorded as of his remarks Tuesday.
Tedros stressed that the medical community is racing to find treatment, saying that “more than 20 vaccines are in development.”
“We understand that people are afraid and uncertain,” he said.
“Fear is a natural human response to any threat, especially when it’s a threat we don’t completely understand.”
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2020-03-04 15:25:00Z
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