[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the link. Yes I believe China and other nations do fudge their figures. The problem is, their health care is nowhere near as advanced as ours, so even though their figures are fudged, our's wouldn't match theirs anyway. Extrapolating meaningful implications for our citizens is very difficult. I still maintain that mortality in our nation would be sustained in the 90 plus percentile.

I haven't pulled down Canadian figures yet, but I'll bet this bears out up there.

[per loin]

As there are no reasonable excuses for believing China's figures, the largest outbreak for which we have figures is Hong Kong. They have recorded 1732 cases. 1302 (75.2%) of these have recovered sufficiently to be released from the hospitals (after an average stay of just over three weeks). 273 (15.8%) died. 157 (9.1%) are still in hospitals. In addition, there are eight suspect cases hospitalized.