1.24 million confirmed cased, only 24000 deaths , LOL what a joke!
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Oh boy. Hate to be the one to break it to ya, but 24,000/1,240,000 = 1.94% is not the fatality rate for the Coronavirus. Let me explain.
The fatality rate of Coronavirus is the number of people killed by Coronavirus divided the number of people infected. 24,000 is not the number of people killed by Coronavirus, it is the number of people who have died with a positive test. So every person who died from anything else while having a positive test is counted in that 24,000. Furthermore, the number of people infected is not 1.2 million. That number is the amount of positive tests. Anyone who was infected and wasn't tested, such as the estimated 30% of asymptomatic people infected, are not counted in that 1.2 million figure.
So in reality, the actual fatality rate is (24,000 - people killed by other causes (cancer, heart disease, etc.) while having a positive test)/(1,200,000 + all infected people not tested). Therefore Coronavirus fatality rate << 1.94%. Closer to 0.5% and 80% of that 0.5% is over 80.