The coronavirus data debate

The coronavirus data debate

Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Irvine, says the mortality rate based on confirmed infections in the United States is around 6 percent. But it may be as low as 0.6 percent when you consider the possible number of asymptomatic cases in the population. That’s still six times deadlier than the flu, with a much higher infection rate. …  “We need to reopen very slowly, very deliberately, and very smartly and with the strategy to start closing things if things don’t go as planned,” Noymer said.