"the numbers are very high" is nearly an exact quote from Trump about the recovered..
There are 111 000 confirmed cases of CoVid-19 and 62 000 that has ben reported recovered. Possibly because full recovery can take as much as 4 weeks, and 4 weeks ago there was hardly any casees in sample Italy.
Since the only 2 possible outcomes are recovery or death I don't think reporting on that basis will reduce fear/panic.