[AdmSmith]

...since there is no cure.

It might be possible to reduce the virus effect on the patient and increase the probability for survival (the mortality as of now is around 3 %) see
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3810827/posts?page=27#27

[Zhang Fei]

[It might be possible to reduce the virus effect on the patient and increase the probability for survival (the mortality as of now is around 3 %) see]

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The mortality rate is the dead/the infected. It’s possible that the mortality rate is far higher, meaning that while only a few hundred thousand are infected, tens of thousands are dead. Maybe not 90,000, but far higher than the regime has admitted. Why would it downplay the mortality rate? To avert a complete cessation of trade links with China, and a complete shutdown of its economy.