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It’s a fact that has no importance other than to mislead. There is no reason to think the virus is any less deadly outside of China or in non-Asian patients. Th
by DataWorker 7y ago
It’s a fact that has no importance other than to mislead. There is no reason to think the virus is any less deadly outside of China or in non-Asian patients. The rest of the world is just a few weeks, give or take local variation in R0, behind and we should expect the same or similar outcomes. That’s according to the experts who spoke at the senate hearing last week.
- danso 7y agoThe fact that only 3 deaths have occurred outside of China (and the vast majority in Wuhan is an important metric in assessing how the virus spreads and how effective or not containment policies have been. There are many, many Chinese people who live outside of China, and emphasizing that the virus is heavily contained in the country of its origin is pretty relevant to anyone who hasn’t visited China recently.
- DataWorker 7y agoThe death rate has very little to do with containment. The rate of infection does. In this case both of these merely represent the time lag, and despite what you think all of the experts agree— we are buying time at this point. Argue with the experts, not with me.