What does the mortality rate or death rate mean in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The mortality rate is the number of people who died due to COVID-19 divided by the total number of people in the population. Since this is an ongoing outbreak, the mortality rate can change daily.
How does COVID-19 compare to the flu?
Flu and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses but are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. Flu is caused by infection with influenza viruses. Both can spread from person to person.
What is the case fatality ratio (CFR)?
Calculating CFR Case fatality ratio (CFR) is the proportion of individuals diagnosed with a disease who die from that disease and is therefore a measure of severity among detected cases:
Why did the death rate increase in 2020?
Therefore, the death rate listed in the table for 2020 is a projection based on data from years prior to the pandemic taking hold. The UN spokesperson also told Reuters that the marginal increase seen in the projection for 2020 could be explained by global rates linked to increased population ageing and past population growth.
Is the death rate in the US higher than other countries?
Overall deaths in the United States this year are more than 85\% higher than in places such as Germany, Israel and Denmark after adjusting for population size. Deaths in the U.S. are 29\% higher than even in Sweden, “which ignored everything for so long,” Emanuel says.
Is the number of deaths in 2020 ‘ virtually non-existent’?
A post shared on Facebook on 13 May 2020 compared the number of deaths in the U.S. during the first 17 weeks of 2019 (30 December 2018 to 27 April 2019) to those during the same period in 2020 (29 December 2019 to 25 April 2020) @. The post states that the number of additional deaths in 2020 is “virtually non-existent”, or negligible.
What is the global death rate per 1000 people?
In 2020, the table shows the global death rate to be at 7.612 per 1,000 people, which is a rate marginally higher than that from 2016 through 2019 but is lower than 2015 and all years prior to this.