How to Use fatality rate in a Sentence

fatality rate

noun

• 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
• In some outbreaks, the fatality rates have been as high as 50%, Walkes said.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 15 June 2024
• 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
• Compare that to the road fatality rate of one in 1.19 million.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The Congo Basin strain has a fatality rate of 10 percent.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 27 July 2022
• 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
• Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
  — Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
• Overall, the United States has tallied the most attacks (720) with a fatality rate of 6%.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Data suggests infections with the former has a fatality rate of around 10% and the rate for clade II is less than 1%.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• The injury and fatality rate is 43 times higher than parachuting from a plane.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But while the fatality rate for most wheel well stowaways is high, some people have survived the ordeal.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• By comparison, aisle seats in the middle of the cabin had a fatality rate of 44 percent.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• The virus is highly contagious among birds and has a nearly 100% fatality rate.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• In a ranking of pedestrian fatality rates among large cities, Dallas came in dead last.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• In the $5 billion Safe Streets and Roads for All program, most of the money doled out so far has gone to more affluent counties with lower fatality rates.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• 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
• And the city also ranked high for public safety, with pedestrian fatality rates in the city coming in at 19th-lowest in the country.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
• The outbreak had a fatality rate of around 80%, according to Medscape.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024
• Marburg virus, if left untreated, can have a fatality rate of up to 88 percent.
  — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
• In Mexico, the disease’s fatality rate can be greater than 40%.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023
• In 2021, the construction fatality rate was two and a half times the national average.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The case fatality rate for the ancestral strain of Covid-19 was estimated to be around 2.6%, for example.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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