Approximately 35% of reported patients with MERS-CoV infection have died, but this may be an overestimate of the true mortality rate, as mild cases of MERS may be missed by existing surveillance systems and until more is known about the disease, the case fatality rates are counted only amongst the laboratory-confirmed cases. Fortunately it did not spread as easily though.
While your rate is accurate based on closed cases there are too many open cases to know if those figures you present will hold true. My point that panic helps in no way against this virus, is still a valid point.
We certainly agree on that!
While your rate is accurate based on closed cases there are too many open cases to know if those figures you present will hold true.
I understand that there are too many open cases to know if those figures will hold. But do you have any concrete reason to believe that with the flood of cases (real or imagined) that will soon hit hospitals, that the fatality numbers we are seeing in the U.S. will improve?
Given the numbers as they stand, do you think that it is wise to take measures, even drastic ones, to prevent the spread of a disease that, to the best of our knowledge has such a high closed case fatality rate?
But I really am interested as much in your answers to the other points, too.