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How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer

  • Written by Justin Silverman, Assistant Professor of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closerInfection fatality rate is simply the number of deaths divided by the number of infections, but finding those numbers is harder than it might seem.AP Photo/John Minchillo

Early reports from January painted a grim picture about just how deadly the coronavirus was. Initially, the World Health Organization estimated that the percentage of infected...

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