How deadly is the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus?
After almost nine months in which the world is already battling the pandemic, data now allow an initial assessment.
Even at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the question arose: How deadly is the coronavirus?
The death rate is an important value in assessing the pandemic.
After nine months, data allow us to draw a first balance.
Munich - There were pictures that you won't get out of your head anytime soon.
In the Italian city of
Bergamo
, military transporters transported countless Covid-19 deaths from the city because there was no more space to be found in the crematoria.
In
Spain
, the Ice Palace in
Madrid was
temporarily converted into a mortuary.
The coronavirus pandemic * hit one country after another.
A total of 909,672 people have died worldwide as a result of an infection with the coronavirus
(source: Johns Hopkins University, September 11, 2020, 8:46 a.m.)
.
Research * is still pulling out all the stops to find a vaccine.
Because one question that has been central from the start will continue to play an important role: how deadly is the coronavirus?
Coronavirus: How deadly is Sars-CoV-2?
- An overview of the death rate
At the beginning of the
pandemic
,
the points of view
differed
widely, but after nine months in which the world is now fighting
the
corona
virus, it is possible to take
stock of
the
corona death rate
.
In the beginning, comparisons were made, for example, of the death rate from influenza flu (0.1 to 0.2 percent), the Sars pandemic in 2002/2003 (10 percent) and the Mers outbreak in the Arab world (almost 35 percent) better assess the situation now.
To find the death rate *, the number of deaths in a country is divided by either the entire population or a subgroup of, say, 100,000 people.
If the Covid 19 deaths are divided by the number of confirmed infected people, it is known as
lethality
.
Coronavirus: This is how high the mortality rate is worldwide - compared to Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the USA
An overview of lethality can be obtained using the data from the
“Our World in Data” platform
,
the statistics of which are continuously updated
(last status: September 10th, 3:05 pm)
.
Accordingly, the mortality rate
worldwide
since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has been
3.3 percent.
In
Germany
this value is
3.7 percent.
Italy
is striking in the statistics
with a mortality rate of 12.7, followed shortly after by
Great Britain
with a value of 11.8.
In the
USA,
which has had almost 6.5 million infected people since the beginning of the pandemic, the mortality rate is 3.0 percent.
President Donald Trump in
particular
repeatedly downplayed the dangers of the virus.
Now Trump surprised with an amazing confession.
On the
European continent
, the mortality rate is just under 7.0 percent.
A comparatively high value that is influenced by high values such as those from Great Britain and Italy just mentioned.
We have just done our daily update of our work on the COVID-19 pandemic: https://t.co/bp2y7cHaIf
This chart shows the rate of confirmed cases - as the daily average over the last week - in European countries.
A very wide range from 2.5 cases per 100,000 to 191.5 per 100,000.
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- Our World in Data (@OurWorldInData) September 8, 2020
Meanwhile, the situation in
Europe
seems to be
getting worse again.
Are you slipping straight into a second corona wave *?
The number of infections is increasing and the Federal Foreign Office has extended travel warnings.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen network (mbr)
In Austria, the corona numbers have reached a new high - new measures have now been decided.
Meanwhile, researchers are warning of another worrying threat that could lead to ten million deaths.
