Trouble is it takes a long time to recover and not long to die so the figures won't mean much. Also they only test those in hospital, the rest of us have no idea if we had had it and recovered or not.
It's too early for us to have meaningful survival figures.
We aren't testing everyone with symptoms. I had what I thought was a normal virus. However the more I hear people speaking about their symptoms the more I wonder if I have had a mild case. I still have a dry chest and throat 3 weeks on. I will probably never know.
I had a really sore throat and eyes like they had glass in them for 24 hours. Then 2 days well. Then I had a cough like that for 24 hours. Had to sit up to sleep gasping for air as so dry. Unlike croup, steam from a kettle did nothing to help. After that I had the mildest chest/throat infection I have ever had for a couple of days. Then the dry cough back and a wheeze. My temp was about 0.5 C higher than usual for 8 days. Tummy pains for 12 hours.I was listening to the press conference thing on BBC News earlier. An expert said the symptoms include a fever, or a cough or both. The cough is a dry cough that lasts about an hour several times a day, or more consistent than that. It is not a wet cough that happens first thing when you get up and occasionally thereafter.
Pleased you got through your bug ok, Zand.I had a really sore throat and eyes like they had glass in them for 24 hours. Then 2 days well. Then I had a cough like that for 24 hours. Had to sit up to sleep gasping for air as so dry. Unlike croup, steam from a kettle did nothing to help. After that I had the mildest chest/throat infection I have ever had for a couple of days. Then the dry cough back and a wheeze. My temp was about 0.5 C higher than usual for 8 days. Tummy pains for 12 hours.
They gave the figures this am almost half the patients in intensive care since February have not survived.I did see something on the news showing number of recovered people and it was slightly higher than the number of deaths, that doesn't mean 50% die, just that it takes longer to recover from the illness than to die from it. It's too early to have meaningful figures.
WHO estimate for annual deaths worldwide for seasonal influenza:
"The WHO estimates that between 290,000 and 650,000 respiratory deaths globally each year are associated with seasonal influenza."
Which would be an average of between 795 and 1780 deaths per day.
At this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had 2791 death on 26th March, and 3271 deaths on 27th March, and the pandemic is only just getting going.
I would say that we are not making too much of this. Quite the reverse.