The heavily minority borough has the highest per-case fatality rate in NYC. The first thing ... to wreak havoc across the borough. "It's just a formula for disaster," Hernandez said.

The case fatality rate for the seasonal flu is about 0.1 to 0.2%. It means that for every 10,000 people with a documented case of the flu, 10 to 20 will die. This method of calculation is often ...

The 2% figure seemed stable on Feb. 24, when a massive study of nearly 45,000 Chinese patients whose infections had been confirmed with laboratory tests reported a case fatality rate of 2.3%.

The U.S. was first to reach the grim 200,000 coronavirus deaths milestone marker this week, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. In additional updated statistics on the university's ...

A case-fatality ratio based on reported numbers does not reflect the true fatality rate among all those who fall sick with COVID-19. The IFR-S does. Indeed, the CDC’s estimate of the influenza ...