no, US is in panic mode.
the fatality rate is nowhere near as high as some alarmist make it out to be, higher than flu but not like some assume. That is why no one, zero under the age of 10 has died anywhere in the world.
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.
As a matter of fact if you add up the top 15 countries with reported cases excluding China, Italy and Iran ) you get over 20,446 cases and 247 deaths for a fatality rate of .012-about 1%. Probably lower and more in line with S Korea as many cases are even more mild. As more test are done you will see more confirmed cases and death rate dropping as it already has started to do that’s because it is more mild than reported for most people.
All true.
But the key is keeping the healthcare system from collapsing as it did in Wuhan and Italy.
If people take seriously (and soon) the measures that help then, indeed, it will not be a disaster.
It isn’t ‘how many have it’. Or how many under 10’s have died.
It’s how many get it and need an ICU bed to recover.
Because when (not if) that number of patients exceeds the ICU capacity the death rate skyrockets.
See: Italy
Even Korea has had an issue with insufficient ICU/critical care facilities. They’ve had plenty of people die at home while waiting for an ICU/critical care bed to free up.
“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%”
We just ignore trolls at this point.
“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.