Incredibly, India is just reporting 3 cases.
Hard to believe, given India’s proximity to the center of the viral storm.
Still no deaths in the USA, and at least half of our 35 cases are related to Asian cruise ships.
The death rate in China is slowly moving up - it’s above 3% now, which is the highest I recall seeing.
In the 1918 flu epidemic, in the USA, our death rate was only 2.5%.
However, our infection rate in 1918 was quite frightening - 30%.
Death from the infectious desease is so common in India that I don’t think they are bothering identifying exact pathogen behind it.
By my calculations, dead over dead+recovered, (in other words the number who died divided by the number of people who have run the full course of the disease) the current death rate world wide is 9.8%.
We have no idea if we have any deaths yet. Or any more clusters than the ones already elucidated.
We aren’t testing.
CDC doesn’t allow testing of anyone who isn’t a recent arrival from China. Still.
Given what we’ve seen in Italy and Iran, most of their cases have never even been to China...