DETROIT Health officials have confirmed the survival rate for people with the coronavirus (COVID-19) is high, but thats no reason to relax safety measures that have been put in place. One of the numbers that has been circulating on social media is that COVID-19 has a 98% or higher survival rate. That would make the case fatality rate 3.9%, so based on confirmed cases, about 96% of people survive. The problem is even a fatality rate of 0.4% can be crippling. Local 4s Dr. Frank McGeorge recommends exercising caution when seeing the survival rate numbers on social media.

DETROIT Theres a lot of confusion surrounding the term death rate when it comes to the coronavirus (COVID-19). What does that really mean, and how high is the virus death rate in Michigan and beyond? The answer is that many are using the term death rate imprecisely without an apples to apples comparison. Its going to artificially elevate the case fatality rate." The case fatality rate for older people is higher.