Posted on 03/02/2020 1:00:06 AM PST by cba123
(Reuters) - South Korea reported 123 new coronavirus cases, taking the country's total infections to 4,335, the Yonhap news agency said, citing health authorities.
The updated numbers added to the 476 recorded earlier ...
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It would be nice if they told us the mortality rate.
Please Pray for our troops there. Extra prayers for our granddaughter who is active duty Air Force currently stationed at Osan AB.
Prayers for your granddaughter.
And all Americans, and all Vietnamese, and everyone.
:)
The math is pretty easy
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
26 deaths divided by 4,335 cases = 0.005997693 and then move the decimal two places to the right for 0.05 mortality rate. (one of the lowest)
What’s odd is only 30 have recovered.
One item I read on FR indicated the two deaths in WA State had genetic commonalities, though not directly related.
Could that explain why the death/critical rates in China and Korea (and undisclosed from North Korea) seem to be higher than in most other countries?
I am not sure if they have confidence in their ‘recovered’ criteria at this point given how many people test positive later.
that is a very alarming angle and we hopefully will get some hard information about it before long.
It is .5997693.
And it is just starting.
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