Do you understand how to compute the mortality rate of a disease?
Where do the percentages come from?
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The most accurate measure would be number of deaths where laboratory confirmed cases of Covid-19 were the major cause of death divided by all laboratory confirmed cases of Covid-19. In reality though, the figure must factor in the likely total number of cases of Covid-19 in the community based on the R number and sampling, using modelling. It is virtually impossible to test everyone in the country and without false negatives and positives.
