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The case numbers are being severely undercounted though. People aren’t getting tested unless they present severe symptoms. If you look at the Diamond Princess,
by garmaine 7y ago
The case numbers are being severely undercounted though. People aren’t getting tested unless they present severe symptoms.
If you look at the Diamond Princess, where seemingly everybody was exposed to the virus, the actual death rate was about 0.4%, which is within error bars of the flu.
- brewdad 7y agoThis will likely go higher as many cases are still hospitalized with severe complications.
- wildrhythms 7y agoPlease define "many cases" and "severe complications". I'm interested.
- brewdad 7y agoGood luck finding any official numbers but a UK citizen from the cruise died this morning, so it's not over yet. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51677846 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51677846
- vkou 7y ago3 more people just died, so it's now 0.8%. Given how it can take weeks to die after being infected, I doubt they will be the last deaths.
- in_cahoots 7y agoCruises also skew significantly older than the overall population. It’ll be awhile until we know the final numbers, but what we know so far is reassuring.