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Just according to superficial stats, it looks like the flu kills orders of magnitude more people than SARS and MERS. This is the "ratio vs. number" distinction
by munchbunny 7y ago
Just according to superficial stats, it looks like the flu kills orders of magnitude more people than SARS and MERS.
This is the "ratio vs. number" distinction: the seasonal flu, despite seeming to have a mortality rate on the order of 1/1000, killed more people just in the US than estimates of people who contracted SARS at all anywhere in the world.
Flu stats: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
SARS stats: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/ https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/
When H1N1 was spreading while I was in college, any people who were confirmed cases would have to undergo two weeks of house quarantine. That's a lot of people saved from potential contact. I imagine Washington State's procedures for quarantine aren't too different.