Anyone else listening to Secy Alex Azar’s interview, on Varney & C0?
He keeps saying....We don’t know, what we don’t know...
Huh???
And....
Stu asks...What are we doing to keep it out of America, and, is there something more that you think we should be doing?
Azar: Risk to any American is very low.
We’re taking appropriate, measured, layered steps to keep the American public safe.
Again...we’re seeing about a 3-4% fatality rate.....
Fatality rates, severity, transmissibility and incubation times are all levels of uncertainty....that we still have to get to the bottom of.
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Okay, whew.
I feel much better, now,
/s
3% death rate, but what is the infection rate?
If it infects 50% of the people in China and 3% of them die, that’s over 20 million dead in China alone.
If it infects 25% of the population and 3% die, it’s 10 million dead in China alone.
All from somebody’s stupid mistake in a germ lab.
Comparison with other viruses:
For comparison, the case fatality rate with seasonal flu is less than 0.01% (1 death per every 10,000 cases).
Mortality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%.
They didn’t spread as fast as this CoronaVirus does.