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the virus would kill 0.26 percent of people it infected, or about 1 in 400 people. (The virus would kill 0.4 percent of those who developed symptoms. But about one out of three people would have no symptoms at all, the CDC said.)
In New York City, for example, the death rates appear somewhat higher, possibly above 0.5 percent – though New York may be an outlier, both because it has counted deaths aggressively (more on this later) and because its hospitals seem to have used ventilators particularly aggressively.
the coronavirus has an infection fatality rate in the range of 0.15 percent to 0.4 percent.
An early May paper in the journal Cell suggests that as many as 60 percent of people may have some preexisting immune response, though not all will necessarily be immune.
Coronavirus overwhelmingly targets the very old and sick. And when they die many of those people have at most months to live.
The median age of people killed by the coronavirus is roughly 80 to 82 worldwide.
