Early mortality rates for COVID-19 are likely misleading, experts say.
Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, says our understanding of the disease is still developing and the statistics are preliminary.
While some studies peg the death rate to 3.4%, experts expect to see this rate decrease as the health care system starts finding milder cases. A lab worker tries to isolate the presence of Coronavirus during a swab test process in the Molecular biology laboratory of the Ospedale Niguarda, on March 05, 2020 in Milan, Italy.Because only the sickest people are showing up at hospitals, this group is likely over-represented among the full population of people who have COVID-19, according to Faust. Most COVID-19 cases are mild, and many individuals will never even see a health care provider to be tested.
A bus arrives near the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where dozens of passengers were tested positive for the novel coronavirus, at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 16, 2020.
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