Posted on 03/06/2020 7:26:18 PM PST by dontreadthis
South Korea has tested more than 140,000 people for the new coronavirus and confirmed more than 6,000 cases. Its fatality rate is around 0.6%. This suggests that, as many health experts have predicted, the virus' fatality rate seems to decrease as more cases are reported. That's because more widespread testing leads more mild cases to be included in the count. The US, by contrast, has tested around 1,500 people. The country has 221 confirmed cases and 12 deaths, suggesting a death rate of 5%. The US' testing capacity has been limited.
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Amazing. America figured out how to stall testing and have the highest death rate.
America figured out how not to let a crisis go to waste.
Personally, I take a double dose of Vitamin C for a couple days and any sniffles go away. Last cold...1984. Last flu....1977.
I had the luxury of working at home for many, many years. I'm sure that made the difference.
What we don’t know is how accurate the tests are. How many false positives?
42 dead. 135 recovered. 6,593 confirmed cases. 6,416 active cases.
Until the other 6,416 cases resolve it would be premature to chillax.
But this proves the point I have been making for over a month:
Containment is key.
South Korea seems to be doing a bang-up job of it. Italy, France, Germany - not so much. We’ll see what our numbers look like when the testing gets going for real.
Read the article again, then figure out what you have wrong.
Not America, you.
Containment is key.
South Korea seems to be doing a bang-up job of it.
As has Singapore.
Here is a hint;
“This suggests that, as many health experts have predicted, the virus’ fatality rate seems to decrease as more cases are reported. That’s because more widespread testing leads more mild cases to be included in the count.”
You’ve already proven your reading comprehension to be poor, I’m done.
People. Deep state. Think a little bit before you get too excited about stopping Trump from being re-elected.
Remember how you felt about the Billy Bush tape? Remember the words that came out of the mouth of Trump himself? If that didn’t stop him, nothing will.
And in 2016, all Trump had were promises.
Now, he’s got KEPT PROMISES!!
Give it up!!!
Does that .6% include those shot for breaking quarantine?
You mean when Obama made regulations that prevented testing?
And when Trump got rid of those regulations?
And the question should also be how many false negatives.
patient 0 tested negative while laying in a hospital bed. Tests have indicated to Scientists that he was shedding the virus while testing negative.
In the 22 years I spent in the Air Force...I probably had the flu at least 15 times (mostly the 3-day bug type). I went to the doctor one single time over the flu business, and got a couple of days out of duty. Unless you reach some stage where your joints really hurt bad or you haven’t eaten in a couple of days...there’s just not much to be gained by a clinic visit.
There might be 300,000 Americans walking around with the virus right now, and it’s just a plain regular flu situation.
Hehe, you don’t understand simple math.
You shouldn’t denigrate America for your shortcomings.
Trump is right, so is Rush.
The math which reflects the actual goings on of this manufactured panic supports the positions of both of them and also many here on FreeRepublic.
Our death rate won’t be higher than Korea. South Korea’s Median age is 44 and their air quality is much worse than the US. The US median age is 38.
the 0.6% estimate is for a median individual, not for 80 year olds. The deaths so far in the US all were in poor health and/or old when infected. It hasn’t killed a healthy person, yet, in the US.
The regular flus kills over 2% of 80 year olds infected.
A virulent Flu strain could kill 1 in 10 80 year olds infected and so could coronavirus.
The other possibility is that not enough cases have resolved yet. The spread is too recent.
SK has
6767 confirmed cases
6588 of those are still active
44 have died
52 are in serious/critical condition (that number seems low. May be a difference in counting vs other countries)
135 have recovered.
So there’s only been 44+135=179 resolved cases.
The death to closed cases ration is 52/179=29.1%.
So for the first 6767 cases, 52/6767=0.6% is the low end of the range for the fatality rate. 29.1% is the high end of the range for the fatality rate.
If you don’t know people who recover from it just fine ever even had it then you get vastly inflated death rates by default.
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