turnips wrote:
There's more than one way to calculate case fatality rate, and in any case it will be different for different populations.
Looking at Taiwan data, they caught almost every case as they happened, boarding planes in January to test people. The absence of community spread meant that they kept schools and shops going, and they have zero to single digit new cases per day. They did have 27 the other day from a Navy ship... and the defense minister apologized and offered to resign.
They have a total of 6 deaths, and 427 cases and 184 active cases. Thus the case fatality rate for Taiwan for closed cases (243) is 6/243 or 2.5%.
There isn't more than one way to calculate the mortality rate. There is only different ways of entering numbers into the equation.