fatality rate
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- noun
- /fəˈtælɪti reɪt/
- Specialized
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tasa de mortalidad
- According to health reports, the fatality rate among the elderly is higher than in other age groups.
- case fatality rate
- high fatality rate
- low fatality rate
So the lucky thing there is the fatality rate is low.
- So the lucky thing there is the fatality rate is low.
- We learned from the data, we are learning from the age distribution what the true case fatality rate is.
- And in poor places in the world, the, the, the, the like places like Africa, the infection fatality rate is incredibly low.
- Particularly once Omicron comes along, the fatality rate is actually reasonably modest and and mostly elder people.
- So while no one knows the exact fatality rate, the bird flu is really bad news and he don't want to have it.
Examples
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Meningococcal septicaemia is a less common form but has a high fatality rate.
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RMSF is especially severe, with a fatality rate of approximately five percent, even with treatment.
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So the lucky thing there is the fatality rate is low.
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And in poor places in the world, the, the, the, the like places like Africa, the infection fatality rate is incredibly low.
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However, from the current outbreak, we note that the case fatality rate is highly linked to the availability of healthcare.
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The case-fatality rate was 18.0% in 2011 and 19.8% in 2012.
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Particularly once Omicron comes along, the fatality rate is actually reasonably modest and and mostly elder people.
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Although the case-fatality rate in humans is 100%, rabies is preventable by vaccination.
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During 2014, henipavirus infection caused severe illness among humans and horses in the southern Philippines; fatality rates among humans were high.
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In some Ebola outbreaks, we've seen fatality rates of nearly 90 percent," Gire said.
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Synonyms
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The number of deaths in a group of people over time
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The number of people who die in a group each year per 1,000 people
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The number of people who die in a population each year shown per 1,000 people
The part of people who have a disease and die from it, often shown as a percent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derivable from 'fatality' (deaths or how deadly something is) combined with 'rate' (frequency per unit), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'proportion of deaths in a population'. The noun+noun compounding pattern (e.g., 'mortality rate', 'birth rate') is common cross-linguistically and follows standard compositional patterns, making this readily understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Fatality rate comes from a simple counting idea: imagine a town where people count how many die. Here, fatality means 'death' and rate shows how many deaths happen in a group or over time, so the phrase means how many people 'die' in a group.