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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Democrat and media signal intercepts have any sensible aliens avoiding our galaxy completely. If the bad orange man doesn't kill you, his diseases will.
If you divide the number of deaths so far by the number of cases you get 3.4 percent.
Some twenty percent of those known cases are in serious or critical condition and many will die later and raise the death toll.
Conversely, plenty of people who have a mild infection do not go to hospitals and are not counted in the total so the true percentage could be a lot lower.
Time will tell.
densely populated
No kidding!
Wuhan makes NYC look like wide open Montana.
People here have no idea what it’s like being inches from people all day long.
To take the authority on this from the NY Slime is laughable. Have we learned nothing since Duranty? “All the news that fits” should be their motto, or better yet, “never let the truth get in the way of our agenda,”
People here should go to a train station in China, it’s like a human river. I’ve experienced that level of density in Germany too at festivals, but China is like that daily.
Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Liuzhou, Nanning, Xiamen, Beijing. All the same for me, just different accents and foods.
Current mortality rates are skewed high because most tests are on severe cases, while mild or asymptomatic cases haven’t been tested. Time will tell.
After the first year or two and a portion of us have immunity, then I'd expect the rate to drop and it might end up being not much worse than the flu. But the issue is THIS YEAR. THIS YEAR it's new to all of us. None of us have immunity unless maybe a coronavirus cold gave us some.
Things that convince me it's worse than the flu.
“Well, for one thing, the flu was not bioengineered as a chimeric killing weapon using strands of several horrible viruses”
it’s a good thing that something like that hasn’t hit us yet, or it would easily kill the bulk of the world population in a matter of weeks ...
The riots in Hong Kong have been swept away.
“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.”
probably all of them, particularly the ones who succumbed ...
i traveled throughout the PRC in the early 80’s on business, and the air quality resulting from unfiltered coal burning, untuned vehicles, ungodly amounts of cigarette smoking, and massive amounts of fine dust blowing towards the eastern cities in the autumn from the Gobi desert pretty much induced lung problems in the entire population.
it was so bad, that it was against the law to spit on the sidewalks because practically everyone had chronic lung issues and were constantly hacking up the nastiest stuff, even relatively healthy younger people in the prime of their lives ... it really was tragic, but just part of the price the communist government was willing to pay to quickly industrialize, namely sacrifice their people because basically they didn’t give a damn about them ...
Ebola is deadlier than the flu too but I would be more concerned with dying from the flu since there is more chance of getting it.
“What are you trying to do, spread calm and reasonableness?”
i thought that had been banned ...
Protests in Hong Kong, first phase of trade deal change with US which China hated and now will have to be delayed, call me a conspiracy theorist I don’t care!!!
Ebola is deadlier than the flu too but I would be more concerned with dying from the flu since there is more chance of getting it.
Last year only about 4 percent more people got flu vaccine than didn’t. What percentage of unvaccinated died compared to vaccinated? Serious question, not trying to start anything between those that vaccinate and those that dont.
They have to burn medical waste and maybe even human waste.
They have to burn medical waste and maybe even human waste.
Now I get the flu shot every year like it's the only thing on my mind.
Like hitting a mule between the eyes with a 2 X 4. And I was the mule.
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