Case Fatality Rate (CFR) measures the severity of disease by defining the total number of deaths as a proportion of reported cases at a specific time.

Other countries are reporting different case-fatality rates. With 6,767 confirmed cases as of late Friday, South Korea has more coronavirus patients than any country besides China.

The percentage of people who die after testing positive for the coronavirus is rising even as thousands of new U.S. cases are identified each day, a troubling preview of the weeks and months that l… ...

But an improved case-fatality rate cannot offset the vast spread of the deadly virus, experts say. California’s mortality rate is rising as the state’s death toll from COVID-19 surpassed ...

The case fatality rate for the seasonal flu is about 0.1 to 0.2%. It means that for every 10,000 people with a documented case of the flu, 10 to 20 will die.

Even though the case fatality rate has been lower than ever in recent weeks, deaths have settled into roughly 1,000 a day, far more daily deaths than when the case-fatality rate was much higher.

Deaths from COVID-19 are ticking up slightly in the U.S. alongside record highs for recorded cases, with California, Texas and Florida reporting the most fatalities overall in the past week while ...

Pediatric case fatality rates have increased over the past decade, driven by a reduction in nonfatal injuries and increasing fatal injuries, according to a research brief published online Oct. 5 ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Natalie Dean, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, about the real fatality rates of COVID-19 — and why estimates vary.

However, an active yellow fever outbreak in Colombia has resulted in 19 deaths among 40 cases, representing a case fatality rate of 47%, the Pan American Health Organization reported.Across South ...

The case fatality rate was impacted by the presence of high-risk features, and 0- to 9-year-olds with these features had a greater rate than 10- to 19-year-olds (25.3% vs. 13.9%), according to the ...

For instance, the authors of the study of nearly 45,000 Chinese patients noted that the case-fatality rate in Hubei, the province at the center of the outbreak, was 2.9%.