Global Victory Over COVID-19: What Price Are We Willing to Pay?

... relative success if we manage to keep the total number of infected to below 10 million people with 5 per cent mortality rate (which is 2 per cent below the global average), that is, 500,000 deaths globally. In other words, humanity would do well on the whole if the total increase in the number of infected and dead only quadruples compared to the mid-April figures. The expected dynamics appear horrifying, but we should remember that in late March, the number of infected in the United States quadrupled ...