When I look at that site I can’t find the figures you present. By clicking on “death rate” at the top I see a long discussion about different rates reported by various entities, and most of those are from two to five percent.

When this is all over, the fatality rate of interest will be the percentage of a country’s population that died. In some previous epidemics up to nine percent of a population has died. So far this one is looking pretty tame: In the worst case Belgium has 576 deaths per million. That’s only six hundredths of one percent, and most of those were in bad shape already.

I think I’ll have a cup of coffee.

Mexice? Border with Narnia?

I like the percentage in Brazil... show that to a fanatic Christian... Lol!!!

Wait, wait, wait.
These are rates as a percentage of total WHAT?
What is the source for this?
Who compiled, with data and from what source?
I will hold judgment on this post until more information is put forward.
A virus much more lethal than SARS-Cov-2 is already infecting the virtual world; it is called misinformation. I am not blaming Petter, but Petter, do you have the information to answer my initial questions? That would go a long way toward keeping us well informed. Thank you.

So, if a country wanted to lower its death rate, all it has to do is conduct more tests.

I agree the numbers are not useful.

Interesting. This gives us rough 7 % of those tested die. Some cases may involve a culture of widespread precautionary testing and others may only test those actively dying. This therefore gives us insight only into the effictiveness of testing the higher the precentage it is likely reflects those countries that test more often for cases that are very likely to test positive.

It also must be taken into account that a posituve test only gives us an idea where the virus is active and does nothing to cure the disease or stem its spread. Information is not "good" or "bad", that is determined by what one does with it. This is none the less interesting.

interesting, thx for posting it.

The more testing done the lower the mortality rate. Without testing, how do you know they had Covid-19? You would know when they were hospitalized with symptoms, those people being more likely to die. Turkey? I'm don't believe figures coming out of Turkey.

I'm going to need an accredited source for this. Where are these numbers coming from? Anyone could have just made them up off the top of their head. This is the way everyone needs to look at memes and any given information from now on.

Just what is it a percentage of and what do we do with the figure? Known cases are a tiny fraction of all people infected.

Maybe the rate reflects a country’s effectiveness in treating those who are ill. If you assume that the known cases are of those sick enough to seek help, then the mortality rate might reflect the quality of care they receive. There are huge variables though. Some populations are older, for example.

Useless statistics without information regarding the number and percentage of citizens tested.