@JeremyKonyndyk @sciencecohen @HelenBranswell @mlipsitch @SCBriand Question from non-health journo trying to clarify news from @DrTedros yesterday. The announcement of 3.4 fatality rate has been reported by a number of major news orgs as signaling that COVID-19 is ...
2/ substantially more deadly than has been understood to date. My understanding was that he was saying something more specific and technical - that this was the percentage of reported deaths to date relative to confirmed/reported cases. And we strongly assume that in ...
3/ Iran or the US and other countries we still have a dramatic underreporting of the true/suspected number of cases. Any insight, expert guidance, etc on piecing this together is greatly appreciated.
