How to Use fatality rate in a Sentence
fatality rate
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The low fatality rate, by the way, isn’t mostly due to the kinds of cars Utahns tend to drive.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
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The fatality rate in Australia is 23%, while the kill rate in Africa is a whopping 38%, according to the site.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
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But the fatality rate varies widely by outbreak, and has ranged from 23% to 90%, according to the CDC.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Feb. 2023
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Later estimates that tried to capture the toll across the world pegged the case fatality rate between 2% and 3%.
—Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
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Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
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Overall, the United States has tallied the most attacks (720) with a fatality rate of 6%.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
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This type of plague is considered the most serious form of the disease, with a high fatality rate.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
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Typically found in the Great Lakes region and the Northeast, Powassan virus has a fatality rate of about 10%.
—Maia Pandey, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
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By comparison, aisle seats in the middle of the cabin had a fatality rate of 44 percent.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
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The virus is highly contagious among birds and has a nearly 100% fatality rate.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
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In a ranking of pedestrian fatality rates among large cities, Dallas came in dead last.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
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Yet for cyclists and other riders on two wheels, the exact opposite has been true: This year has seen one of the highest fatality rates in 20 years.
—John Surico, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
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In Mexico, the disease’s fatality rate can be greater than 40%.
—Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023
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In 2021, the construction fatality rate was two and a half times the national average.
—Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
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But critics say there aren't enough finished projects in enough cities to make a significant change to overall fatality rates.
—Stephen Stock, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
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Believed to be spread to people from bats, Nipah has a fatality rate in humans of somewhere between 40 and 75 percent.
—WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
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That compares with the nearly 30% fatality rate for Nepal’s Annapurna I, one of the world’s most dangerous peaks.
—Reuters, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
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Even more specifically, the middle seats in the back of the aircraft are statistically the safest, with just a 28 percent fatality rate.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
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That fatality rate is almost 10 times higher than the typical American job, and the injury rate is almost twice as high.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
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The case fatality rate for this illness—spread by ticks and the tissue of infected animals during and after slaughter—is around 30%.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
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The fatality rate of the middle aisle seat is 44 percent, compared to that of the middle rear seat, which is 28 percent, according to an investigation by TIME.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
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In the past five years, Baffert has had a fatality rate lower than most California big-stable trainers.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
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The disease has a rapid onset, a high fatality rate, and an unpredictable distribution.
—Jessica Hatcher, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2014
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There are distinct differences between the two, to be sure, including fatality rates.
—Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
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Any major injury or fatality rates likely have more to do with the usual risks of swimming, boating, and beer drinking in natural bodies of water.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
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The apps’ payment algorithms pressure them to deliver meals on opposite ends of Manhattan in mere minutes—so the fatality rate has become one of the highest for any job here.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
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Logging workers The fourth-highest job fatality rate was reported for logging workers, who have led the national rankings in some years.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
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Whether the billions of dollars in the Purdue settlement and others will have a meaningful impact on addiction and overdose fatality rates remains to be seen.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
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The profession's fatality rate is 21 times higher than for the typical American job.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
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That gave doctors more time to develop techniques and drugs for treating patients in the brutal period before vaccines helped lower the fatality rate.
—Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
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