The Coronavirus Case Fatality Rate is Not the Same as the Infection Fatality Rate
You need to know the difference to really understand how good we are at treating this disease.
5 min readJul 30, 2020
As of this writing (7/30/2020), there have been 4.4 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US, and 151,000 deaths, for a case-fatality rate of 3.5%.
