[Steve_Seattle]

One thing about this virus that intrigues me is that it has such a wide range of impacts on different people. I'm just pulling these percentages out of the air, based on my general impression from news reports, but my sense is that 40% of people have no symptoms, 40% have mild symptoms, like a minor cold or flu, 15% have more unpleasant flu-like symptoms, 3% require hospitalization, but survive, and 1% die.

I know about the impact of "co-morbidities," but the wide range in severity of symptoms still seems a mystery to me.

[joesbucks]

Agree. Seems to range from nothing to death and everything inbetween. I never gave it much attention until it got Herman Cain. For some reason his death deeply touched me. I know he was a cancer survivor, but he seemed so vibrant.