Him: "Don't want to be 'statistically dead.'"
Her: "Ping Null and Void."
Posted on 01/22/2020 9:11:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
Chinese officials have confirmed 440 cases of the new coronavirus strain - 2019-nCoV - so far, with 17 deaths. Based on existing data, it is said to have a 2% death rate.
This means that for every 50 people who catch the infection, one will statistically die.
To put this into context, around one in every 1,000 who develop flu die, giving it a death rate of 0.1%. “This [2019-nCoV’s death rate] could be 2%, similar to Spanish flu,” Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said.
Professor Peter Horby, from the University of Oxford, pointed out fatality estimations are based on “clinical data around hospital cases”.
Of those in hospital, “15%-to-20% are severe cases”, defined as needing ventilation.
Coronaviruses as a class are common, causing everything from the common cold to epidemics like severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).
2019-nCoV is thought to have originated in animals before “jumping” over to humans.
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Maybe China decided it was time to cull the herd.
They should have started in those locales which are net exporters of poor people.
Deliberately misleading.
The .1 mortality for flu is based on all cases not just hospitalizations as the corona is reported.
Flu mortality of only hospital cases is greater than 10 percent for the 2017/18 season.
Ah. Interesting!
PANIC NOW!!!
Too late.
You should have panicked yesterday.
Hopefully China will suffer some karma and wipe out their population. Nasty people, government and culture.
Hopefully take out the globalist traitors from the US over there as well who sold out our countries workers.
I don’t care.
I usually read about these things after they are over.
It’s worked very well for me. Life is good.
Let me know how it all works out. :)
Uh no. The Spanish flu killed 20% of those infected. However, that number is suspect due to poor record keeping in many parts of the world. 20% would mean that 10 out of fifty die. If the Chi-bug was doing that there would already be mass panic by .gov(s).
I would say that makes it much worse. They didn’t have anywhere near the skills back then to keep sick people alive that they do now.
If you watched Downton Abbey you would know it was 20%. I know it was true because it was on TV and PBS.
The media never mentions that when the Spanish flu was killing people, we had no antibiotics for any secondary infections involving bacteria, we had very little access to IV technology for hydration (that took off in the 1950s), and aspirin was considered new, cutting edge treatment for fever.
The high death rate for Spanish Flu says a lot about the medical situation in 1918. For equivalent death rates today, you’d need a disease significantly worse.
Good point. But the SF developed very fast in younger people. One would need to be treated in short order to get ahead of it today.
lol... I remember that from DA. There was a show on the SF on maybe the History Channel just a few weeks ago. Very interesting. Whole towns were basically wiped out in the plain states in the US. Mass graves etc.
“They didn’t have anywhere near the skills back then to keep sick people alive that they do now.”
When I first started working I worked with an older gentleman, who told me his first job in the Spanish Flu epidemic was making boxes (Coffins),for the victims of the Flu.
He told me some areas were hit very hard with these deaths. Unbelievable by today's standards of Hospitals, and medical attention. -Tom
I will admit I'd never heard of statistically dying before, but it sounds awful. "Drill, yer number's up!" What am I going to do without it?
No, this isn't the "Spanish" flu, for which nomenclature every Spaniard should be allowed to thrash a newspaperman somewhere. "Fort Riley Flu" doesn't have quite the sizzle to it but is marginally more accurate, although of late even that appears not to have been Ground Zero. The really interesting question with that one isn't how it started, it's why it stopped. That may give us a clue as to just how imperiled humanity is to epidemic disease. No zombie apocalypse, sorry - I've had my hopes dashed by science.
I opened the window and in flew Enza...
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