It is worth spending some time with this site re COVID-19

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I've been watching the slopes of the graphs. Look at the Total Cases graph....at one point it was flattening out (when still concentrated in China, and before it "escaped" to the rest of the world). That is a troubling development.

Looking at the country charts below, Italy certainly now stands out - and the US is starting its ascent up the chart.

A historical event - in the worst possible sense - well underway, I'm afraid. And we have the worst possible person so-called "leading" our country through it, of course.

There is a LOT of info at this site.

There is this, too

3.4% Mortality Rate estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO) as of March 3

In his opening remarks at the March 3 media briefing on Covid-19, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated:

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.” [13]

Initial estimate was 2%

Initially, the World Health Organization (WHO) had mentioned 2% as a mortality rate estimate in a press conference on Wednesday, January 29 [1][2] and again on February 10. However, on January 29 WHO specified that this was a very early and provisional estimate that might have changed. Surveillance was increasing, within China but also globally, but at the time it was said that:

We don't know how many were infected ("When you look at how many people have died, you need to look at how many people where infected, and right now we don't know that number. So it is early to put a percentage on that."[1][2]).
The only number currently known is how many people have died out of those who have been reported to the WHO.
It is therefore very early to make any conclusive statements about what the overall mortality rate will be for the novel coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization [1][2].

[Pachamama]

1. Great site...been using it for years for data sourcing and "snapshots"

They collect data (on practically everything and topic) and maintain it real time.

Since the outbreak they have been having a whole section dedicated to COVID-19 and aggregate info from WHO and other sources for reference.

Allows you to get a birds eye view of the data.

Is only as good as the data being supplied by individual countries to WHO. Sometimes you can tell there is constant updating or daily updating and then you see no change with countries like Iran for days.