Do the math ... The death rate is increasing as SARS spreads. Based on the figures admitted to by this report the death rate has gone up from < 2.5% just three weeks ago to about 5.5% today. But there are other cases and more deaths which may have not been reported.
Bet the true death rate is already between 7% and 8%.
Very nasty virus indeed. The average flu virus kills less than < 1% and this killer is just starting. The Spanish Flu of 1918 started with a death rate on about 2.5% and then slowly built up to a killing rate of about 28%.
F'Chinese and their genetic virus mutation experiments.
The Chinese spin meisters were saying, "Don't worry. 95% of people survive". That's spin. 88% of people infected are still in hospitals in HK. How many of those in the 88% group would be dead without aggressive care in a hospital? I think the distribution between deaths, recoveries and hospitalized will take a hard jump in the direction of deaths when the number of infected persons outnumbers the available hospital beds.