Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
If you read the official information thats what it suggests, and until something more exact is known I'd rather stick with that.
The point is that the vast majority get it and recover without needing special treatment or ventilators. The death rate is put at c 3 - 5 % but that is of people known to have had it, but always notes that many people will get it and recover without ever realising it or being tested and incuded in those figures.
But only a small percentage of people need to get it badly enough to require treatment which would swamp the hospitals. Look at Italy.

To be honest, I find it amazing that this still needs to be said weeks into the whole thing.