According to Johns Hopkins there have been 197,185 total confirmed cases of Covid-19 worldwide so far. Of those, 7,905 have died. That is a 4% mortality rate, extremely high for any fl... "respiratory virus. In the U.S. there are 6,423 confirmed cases so far and 108 deaths, a mortality rate of 1.7%, less than half the worldwide mortality rate and right in line with the flu mortality rate. I find that strange.