[ConservativeMind]

Is there a reasonable likelihood that SARS and MERS were effectively the same threat as COVID-19, but for those, antibody tests weren’t done to any useful extent?

In other words, none of these were ever as problematic as believed? Several months ago South Korea said the actual statistical death rate, including antibody testing across a sample population, was only 0.6% with moderate prevention in place. That seems to be what we are near today—not 7-10%.

[Mom MD]

SARS and MERS were both a lot more deadly but a lot less contagious than COVID and therefore easier to trace and quarantine