https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/coronavirus-cases-deaths-flu
Caronavirus potential infectiousness: Ro 3.8
Measles potential infectiousness: Ro 12-18
SARS potential infectiousness: Ro 3.0
China’s handing of this, stigma and quarantines, is likely adding to deaths since the ill can’t get help.
China doesn’t want the ill to get help.
They prefer it that way.
Makes lying about the total cases, mortality and morbidity much easier.
‘person XXX died at home, cremate immediately’.
Quarantines are really the only thing that works to stop disease spread. China instituted them WAY too late. In every simulation or real world situation governments do the right thing about a week to 10 days too late. Basically an incubation period.