Coronavirus Outbreak: Death toll in Iran is now at 50, news agency says

ABC11 ^ | Feb 24 2020 | AP

[DannyTN]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from the new coronavirus this month, Iran's semiofficial ILNA news agency reported on Monday.

The new death toll is significantly higher than the latest number of confirmed cases of infections that Iranian officials had reported just a few hours earlier by and which stood at just 12 deaths out of 47 cases, according to state TV. ...

[DannyTN]

Not showing in Worldometes stats yet.

[DannyTN]

Worldometers

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Yeah... if true. Panic time.

[ncalburt]

So now we know how many Commie Chinese are in Iran building it nuclear
arsenal .

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If they’ve died, they’re not staggering any more.

[pas]

Unless......Zombies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Hadn’t thought of that.

[Joe Boucher]

8 million folks go to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.
What could go wrong?

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Hajj will be a big one. But, it isn’t for another few months. This year it is from July 28 to August 2. Maybe the outbreak will have settled down.

But, can you imagine how something this infectious will spread in a crowd packed around the magic rock?

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[dangus]

There must be thousands of cases! And the thought of sealing Iran’s borders with Iraq is absurd!!!

[dangus]

Could be one idiot official in Iran. Remember what some of our own “officials” said during Hurricane Katrina? His “deaths” sounds suspiciously close to the number of “cases” reported by Iran.

OTOH, there had been a strangely high death rate out of Qom, suggesting that the Iranians were lying about the number or cases, or worse, clueless.

[Tonytitan]

I wonder if it will be reported if/when a large chunk of the mullahs succumb to this virus.

[rxsid]

"Yeah... if true. Panic time."

Why?

Because Iran has a 3rd world health care system?

Perhaps I missed the /sarc tag, but the number of deaths from Corv-19 are minisqual compared to deaths from influenza...for example.

There's a Virus Spreading in U.S. That's Killed 10,000: The Flu

Meanwhile, our stock market is in fact panicking. Down 937 at the moment.

This panic about Corv-19 is really the only thing that could potentially sink Trumps re-election bid cause it has the potential to wipe out our great economy.

[rxsid]

*miniscule

[bert]

Mean while, more Americans are wounded with hand guns than get the virus

More people die from hand guns then die from the virus

Cities are more dangerous to Americans than the virus

[Black Agnes]

This will, in fact, wipe out the economic gains made under Trump. Given the supply chain disruptions ALREADY having taken place in China, that’s baked into the cake right this minute.

We still aren’t testing anyone who isn’t a recent arrival from China even though Italy and Iran are ‘eat up with’ this in people who’ve never seen a Chinese person much less been to China.

This hasn’t killed as many people as the flu because few people have had it. Yet. It’s mortality rate so far is about 50 times that of the flu. Let’s talk next year about mortality from this.

[nuconvert]

“Down 937”

holy cr&p

[VanShuyten]

“ A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom...”

Just by coincidence, they’re all homos, Zoroastrians, Sunnis, or adulterers.

[existentially_kuffer]

You would think prayers to allah solves all, even 5x a day.