The US has the world's highest death rate for the new coronavirus at 5.4%, compared to a global average of 3.4%.
New testing standards and more widely available test kits could pick up more mild cases in the U.S. and lower the death rate.
The US has the world's highest death rate for the new coronavirus: Based on the ratio of confirmed deaths to reported cases, 5.4% of patients have died.
Only the Philippines has a higher coronavirus death rate than the US, and that's because it has only had three cases.
If you calculate the death rate based on only those federally verified cases, it jumps to roughly 10%.
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