"The World Health Organization announced Tuesday the global mortality rate from coronavirus was 3.4%. The death rate so far — which includes more than 3,000 deaths — is many times higher than the mortality rate of the seasonal flu, which is 0.1%. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that is at least partly because COVID-19 is a new disease, and no one has built up an immunity to it."

It could also be said that those that have the virus and show a mild reaction to it will not show on any statistics. This would skew the mortality rate and make it appear much higher than it is.

Time will tell.