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A virus that has a higher percentage of death does not make it deadlier. The flu is deadlier, period. It has more deaths associated with it than does the coronavirus.

70 posted on 03/04/2020 2:10:12 PM PST by Robert DeLong

To: Robert DeLong

It makes it more lethal ...

73 posted on 03/04/2020 2:14:48 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)

To: Robert DeLong

A virus that has a higher percentage of death does not make it deadlier. […] It has more deaths associated with it than does the coronavirus.

Yep. Deadliness is infectiousness*lethality. Infectiousness is limited from transmittal rate by how long it takes symptoms to appear, how quick those with it die, and the number of susceptible individuals.

The flu is deadlier, period.

That’s an open question, since COVID-19 is still in the growth part of the curve, and even counting China’s numbers only a little more than half are recovered from it (or died) yet.

78 posted on 03/04/2020 2:32:03 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

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