WHO Announces Coronavirus Mortality Rate Has Jumped to 3.4 Percent

The World Health Organization on Tuesday announced that 3.4 percent of COVID-19 patients worldwide have died from the illness.The mortality rate of the coronavirus was previously thought to be around two percent. The illness has a much stronger chance of causing death in sick and elderly patients (around 14 percent), while among children and healthy adults the mortality rate is close to zero.The WHO's announcement came as Washington State officials confirmed a total of nine deaths in the state c