[polymuser]

Well, maybe a term other than Case Fatality Rate (which formally has an understood meaning of cases/deaths) could be used?

Maybe Resolved Fatality Rate? That reflects a denominator using resolved cases — they either died or recovered.

With CFR, TIME is the factor that makes it a smaller percentage, the time between infection and resolution. CFR would equal RFR only after the disease has run its course and all cases are resolved — they died or survived.

My 2 cents.

[scouter]

I hear what you're saying, but I did specifically say CFR Over the Course of the Disease, which implicitly means eliminating those who still have the disease, and specifies the time frame for the calculation. But your point is well taken.