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Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson from the Yale School of Medicine.

As of this recording, there have been 4.2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States and 147,000 deaths, for a case fatality rate of 3.5%.

If you were to rank the countries of the world with respect to case fatality rate, you'd find the United States doing okay — about on par with Germany and Brazil, way better than Italy, and worse than New Zealand and Australia, for instance. This is not to say we are containing the virus well, just that among those who get it, the chance of survival is about as good here as in those other countries.