No survival is still rare. CDC says fewer than ten have done so. Rabies is almost a sure death sentence.
if you catch it before it develops you can survive it. you take a series of uncomfortable shots.
Part of the reason survival is so rare is that it’s easy to be infected and not be aware of it until too late.
I was bitten by a bat about four years ago. Hardly felt it—it would have been easy to not notice. Of course I had shots. I bloody well felt those.