If you still need a reason to treat coronavirus as deadly serious, this Worldometers info—which correctly articulates mortality rate via closed cases—should do it. As for the 123,500 open cases, unfortunately we've no reliable data on how many patients are in "serious" condition. 
While it's possible some nations are undercounting infections/deaths in ways we can't know, it's certain that the "serious/critical condition" data for "open" cases is a farce. Just look at the US—where infections are jumping but "serious/critical condition" notations are static.
We've been told that once *all* infection data is known and *all* cases are closed, the coronavirus' mortality rate won't be 10%, but under 1%. I'd bet that public health experts are a lot less sure of that now than a month ago, as we already have data from *85,000* closed cases.
As I've written here before, as coronavirus testing increases more cases get identified—including milder ones—and mortality rate, the experts say, will decline. But it seems less and less clear that the mortality rate—which is now rising—is going to fall so far as to be below 1%.
Another way to look at it: imagine (insanely) that every single current coronavirus patient (123,561 of them) recovers fully—with not a single death. (We can only pray that this would ever happen.) That'd still put the mortality rate for coronavirus—across 216,000+ cases—at 4.1%.
A "mere" 4.1% mortality rate for coronavirus—which, as these numbers show, is purely fanciful—would still make the virus *41 times as deadly* as the seasonal flu.
Perhaps now we better understand why public health experts are leaning more and more toward *grim* global scenarios.
Perhaps now we better understand why public health experts are leaning more and more toward *grim* global scenarios.
Another way to understand this: Italy—which reports "serious or critical condition" active cases—shows about a 10% rate of such cases. The United States—which largely doesn't report such data—shows (falsely) well under 1% for the same measure. Italy is probably closer to correct.
So as Trump tells us he always knew coronavirus was serious—a *lie*—remember that he and his allies were pushing the BS line, for *weeks*, that the mortality rate of coronavirus would settle at around 0.4%. Now it looks like we'd be *lucky as hell* if it ends up *ten times* that.
