Statistics show coronavirus U.S. death-rate decreasing

While coronavirus cases have increased in the past two weeks, the mortality rate has declined, pointed out veteran Fox News analyst Brit Hume.

He retweeted a day-by-day list of the number of cases reported compared to the number of deaths. It showed a drop in the mortality rate from 4.06% on March 8 to 1.84% on March 15.

"It will likely decline even further if and when those without symptoms can be diagnosed and counted," Hume wrote on March 16.

According to the Worldometer site, the latest global count is 266,208 known coronavirus cases, 11,187 deaths and 90,603 recoveries.

In the United States, it's 16,517 cases, 225 deaths and 125 recoveries.

That's a mortality rate of 1.3%.

The count from March 8 to 15:

4.06% March 8 (22 deaths of 541 cases)
3.69% March 9 (26 of 704)
3.01% March 10 (30 of 994)
2.95% March 11 (38 of 1,295)
2.52% March 12 (42 of 1,695)
2.27% March 13 (49 of 2,247)
1.93% March 14 (57 of 2,954)
1.84% March 15 (68 of 3,680)

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday a new study found the coronavirus death rate in Wuhan, where the virus originated, was lower than initial estimates.

The study published by the journal Nature found the mortality rate was 1.4% at the end of February, a few percentage points lower than other estimates.

As the number of cases has expanded, the mortality rate has declined. It will likely decline even further if and when those without symptoms can be diagnosed and counted. https://t.co/ww5EHQ0Y2B

— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 16, 2020