COVID-19 death rate estimated at 0.66% - The Lancet

The overall death rate from coronavirus (COVID-19) has been estimated at 0.66%, rising sharply to 7.8% in people aged over 80, a report published in The Lancet has found. The rate declines to 0.0016% in children aged nine and under, the research showed. Calculated by UK researchers using aggregate data on cases and deaths in mainland China, the report is unique because they adjusted for undiagnosed cases and the number of people in each age group of a population. The research found that nearly one in five people over 80 infected with COVID-19 would probably require hospital admissi...