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Of the initial 41 patients, 13 were admitted to ICU and 6 died(15%). This is the data the news has been missing and shows why China is taking this so seriously.
by caseyf7 7y ago
Of the initial 41 patients, 13 were admitted to ICU and 6 died(15%). This is the data the news has been missing and shows why China is taking this so seriously.
- Geee 7y agoAnd of the dead patients, 5 were in the ICU and one was not.
- mysterypie 7y agoA 15% mortality rate is huge, but considering that this is a newly identified disease, the actual mortaility rate might be much less. Inventing some numbers, let's say that 3000 people were already infected when the initial 41 patients were identified -- those 41 being the sickest. The other 2959 people either didn't have symptoms or were assumed to have a cold or flu, and they all recovered. Had there been a reliable way to identify the hypothetical 3000 infected people, the mortaility rate would be only 0.2% if 6 had died.