Here is a look at issues surrounding better understanding the COVID-19 death rate. How is a death rate calculated? "The death rate for people below age 20 is probably one in 10,000. There has been an apparent decline in death rates when measured against the number of new infections confirmed by coronavirus testing. In places like the United States, that "case fatality rate" has fallen dramatically from 6.6% in April to just over 2% in August, according to Reuters statistics.

Source: bd News24 September 29, 2020 02:03 UTC