Oh and in regards to lethality: Calculate deaths/(deaths+cured).
Don't know why people keep using total number of infected. It makes no sense. Some of those people are going to die.
Because death occurs earlier in the disease cycle than cured state, (cured may be pronounced many weeks after the onset whereas death in a couple of weeks)
and especially at the beginning of the outbreak this figure will be weighted too far towards a high mortality rate, and equally makes no sense at this point.
You can easily see the error of using this method in the first few weeks, say 5 people died, but nobody has been declared cured, giving a 100% mortality rate.
Bear attempts look pretty futile, nobody else appears to be jumping aboard.
Again, some of the infected are going to die. And we don't know how many of them. We do know how many died and how many were cured. Convenience is no excuse for deliberately fudging the numbers. And it's not 5 people anymore.