“The country that has done the most testing that can be relied upon is S Korea , they have tested well over 250,000 and have 7,869 cases and 66 deaths for a fatality rate of .008 or less than 1%. That is more than the flu but nothing like what some are reporting here and in the news.”
Korea is the best case of handling this, so far. Someone the other day claimed that they were holding it to a 0.7% deaths to cases ratio. I pointed out that they had identified the vast majority of cases (maybe) but that most were still unresolved, and their 0.7 number was only going to get higher. They said that the rest, 99% of them, were mild. That was when their death toll was 50. Three days ago.
Our healthcare system can barely handle the flu some years.
This thing kills 8 times as many and has a higher rate of hospitalizations and ICU needs. We have to fight it every inch so we don’t go all Italy with this.
Containment is key. Butflubros are spreaders. Get out of the way and stop panicking about our efforts to stop this.
I think Singapore maybe handling it the best, heady testing and contact tracing. They had their first case on January 23 and only have 189 cases
“As of 11 March 2020, 12pm, MOH has identified 4,218 close contacts who have been quarantined. Of these, 981 are currently quarantined, and 3,237 have completed their quarantine.“