How many of those who are infected with COVID-19 will die? We search for answers

“There’s still a lot that we don’t know,” said Andrew Noymer, associate professor of public health at the University of California Irvine, because it takes years to figure out a disease. … “The way the death-to-case ratio keeps dropping — it’s like a Ponzi scheme,” Noymer told the Deseret News, “because cases keep growing before the deaths have time to catch up.”