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!
What’s your problem?
I said the mortality rate ( by my calculation ) seemed to be about 3%.
No need to get ‘the vapors’ over <1%
I am just sayin compared to something like Ebola which is 75% you are RELATIVELY safe if you catch this.
Now, if the reports coming out after this are true- it may be something worse than the Chinese are letting on.
Which is kind of my point. Why all the hysteria over <3% mortality- From videos coming out it looks like people suddenly just fall over...
Maybe the Chinese are lying.