Name:   architect - Subject:   Apples and oranges Date:   12/2/2020 8:52:57 AM (updated 12/2/2020 8:54:59 AM)

We are not talking about a daily fatality rate but the average long term fatality rate.  You apparently don't understand math very well.

If a cruise ship with 2000 souls on board sinks and there are no survivors then the fatality rate of that particular ship is 100%.

If a cruise line has 10 ships at sea with each carrying 2000 passangers and 2 sink with the loss of 50% (1000) of the souls on each ship die then the same number of people (2000) have died but the fatality rate for the company is only 10%.

It ain't rocket science...if to date, 13,700,000 have a disease and 270,000 of them have died, then to date, the death rate is about 2%.  That does not mean 2% of those infected every day will die every day, it does mean that so far the disease has killed 2% of those who were infected.  Only when the last case is reported and the last victim mourned can we know what the final fatality rate was.