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The difference between 0.5% and 3% case fatality rate is in large part determined by whether hospitals become overwhelmed, and that in turn will be determined by whether we take immediate and widespread preemptive action to reduce the exponent of the infection curve.



Case fatality rate is not mortality rate. Until the end of an outbreak where they converge, it's much higher.




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