“What is the fatality rate for covid-19?”

For you and your family, it is very low. For under 10 yrs, it is essentially zero. For you and your wife, it is only a fraction of a percent.

G. Dickinson

deaths With underlying conditions Without underlying conditions Unknown if with underlying cond. Share of deaths of unknown + w/o cond.

0 - 17years old
3
0.04%
3
0
0
0%
18 - 44 years old
309
4.5%
244
25
40
1.0%
45 - 64 years old
1,581
23.1%
1,343
59
179
3.5%
65 - 74 years old
1,683
24.6%
1,272
26
385
6.0%
75+ years old
3,263
47.7%
2,289
27
947
14.2%

TOTAL
6,839
100%
5,151
137
1,551
24.68%
cases
DEATH RATE
all cases

80+ years old
21.9%
14.8%
70-79 years old
8.0%
60-69 years old
3.6%
50-59 years old
1.3%
40-49 years old
0.4%
30-39 years old
0.2%
20-29 years old
0.2%
10-19 years old
0.2%
0-9 years old
no fatalities

That's a question that is being evaluated by many scientists and epidemiologists and we still are unsure of the answer. Mortality rates can only be determined if the total number of infected individuals is known and without broad testing we can't know the correct "denominator" to calculate the percent of infected people who die of the disease. At present, estimates range from about 1%-2% to as high as 10%, depending on age. There's no question that COVID-19 has a higher mortality rate than seasonal influenza (which is about 0.1%), but because of the the apparently frequent undiagnosed asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic infection, greater specificity will only come when we truly understand how many people have been infected with the virus.