Isn’t this just a 3% mortality rate?
Doesn’t the common cold have just about that much too?
It’s not like ebola which is greater than 75% mortality rate.
More infectious then Ebola. Cannot be stopped now. So more people will be infected, so total number dead could be higher cause of that.
Only seriously immunocompromised people will die from the cold. Maybe not even then.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3275147/
If 3 out of 100 people infected with ‘common cold’ died, we’ wouldn’t have 7B people on the planet.
Spanish Flu had about an 8-10% mortality IIRC.
But truthfully, we don’t have any idea what the mortality of this is. Are there hundreds of people who sniffle and snot for a day or two and then are fine and aren’t reported? Are the chicoms telling us the truth about any of this? Who knows...
I’m waiting to see what happens with the patients in Western countries.
Oh, for God’s sake!
FLU last year in the US was roughly 0.075% mortality rate.
“Common cold” would be much lower than that.
If 2019-nCoV mortality is 3% (seems to be the best available current number, but who knows what it will be if hospitals are overwhelmed), and if it is as contagious as it appears, this is serious trouble. 50 to 100 million dead globally is not an unreasonable guess. Gotta hope that’s way high.
Ebola is much more deadly, but also far harder to spread. Thank God for the latter!