Posted on 02/29/2020 7:07:45 PM PST by NoLibZone
As new cases appear on the West Coast, some — including the president — see comparisons to the seasonal flu. Here’s a close look at the differences.
Which virus is deadlier?
The coronavirus seems to be more deadly than the flu — so far.
On average, seasonal flu strains kill about 0.1 percent of people who become infected. The 1918 flu had an unusually high fatality rate, around 2 percent. Because it was so contagious, that flu killed tens of millions of people.
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Early estimates of the coronavirus death rate from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, have been around 2 percent. But a new report on 1,099 cases from many parts of China, published on Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine, finds a lower rate: 1.4 percent.
The coronavirus death rate may be even lower, if — as most experts suspect — there are many mild or symptom-free cases that have not been detected.
The true death rate could turn out to be similar to that of a severe seasonal flu, below 1 percent, according to an editorial published in the journal by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The true death rate could turn out to be similar to that of a severe seasonal flu, below 1 percent, according to an editorial published in the journal by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
It has 4% more alcohol than the flu
And the death rate for the flu would probably be higher if we wern’t vaccinating.
Well, for one thing, the flu was not bioengineered as a chimeric killing weapon using strands of several horrible viruses
As the sample size increases the rate will decrease.
That would be great news!
But, if that's all it really is, it makes me wonder why the Chinese reacted so dramatically. And, why the incinerators in Wuhan are running flat out. The Chinese aren't prone to public health hysteria, IMHO.
These are values that can be influenced. We should have a far lower death rate than China’s due to our health care infrastructure, as long as it doesn’t get overloaded. We should also have a lower R0, because we are less densely populated and we know it is coming. Both our health care and our food supply are far more hygienic.
Dem turnout in 2008 - 532000
Dem turnout in 2016 - 370000
Dem turnout in 2020 - 410000
The other thing that needs a study. China has the worst air quality in the world. How many infected with Coronavirus have existing respiratory problems that Conronavirus is aggravating.
What are you trying to do, spread calm and reasonableness?
2020 Bernie got LESS votes than 2916 Bernie.
Biden got 60K more votes than Hillary.
Dem primary vote was much less in 2016 because it was decoupled from the Republican SC primary, which occurred the week before.
Excuse me. I mean Hilldog got 60K more primary votes than Biden.
LMAO
I’m battling the trolls here from the DNC :
Doomsday National Committee.
I have a feeling that when April rolls around and things heat up, this coronavirus will disappear. Its virility seems to thrive on cold.
That's an excellent question.
Kind of refreshing.
SORRY POSTED IN WRONG THREAD LOL
As it moves from a Nation with Government Run Health care it will drop.
China has an 1890’s health care system.
Blankets and water, That all they get.
Covid 19 will illustrate perfectly why we need to keep the government far away from out healthcare.
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