Best Estimate is 0.4 Percent Death Rate for COVID-19 Patients With Symptoms: CDC

Ronald Temko, sitting, a COVID-19 patient, prepares to be loaded into an ambulance after discharge from the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion in San Francisco, Calif., on May 20, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The current “best estimate” put the mortality rate for COVID-19 at 0.4 percent for patients who show symptoms, a federal health agency said.

The estimated rate is based on the number of people showing symptoms who die “of the disease,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.