{"id":103313,"date":"2020-03-05T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3-4-globally-higher-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:03:42","slug":"who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3-4-globally-higher-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3-4-globally-higher-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3-4-globally-higher-than-previously-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>World health officials said Tuesday the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency\u2019s headquarters in Geneva. In comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World health officials said Tuesday the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. \u201cGlobally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency\u2019s headquarters in Geneva. In comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}