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Where'd you get 80% from?

• adventured 7y ago
  Might be from this: "A total of 81% of cases in the JAMA study were classified as mild, meaning they did not result in pneumonia or resulted in only mild pneumonia. Fourteen percent of cases were severe (marked by difficulty breathing), and 5% were critical (respiratory failure, septic shock, and/or multiple organ dysfunction or failure)." http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/study-72000-covid-19-patients-finds-23-death-rate http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/study-720...
  • _-___________-_ 7y ago
    That's 81% of cases though. Cases are a much more restricted set than "people who get this". Many mild infections will never be noticed or recognised as a case.
  • Reelin 7y ago
    The JAMA study [1] is an excellent analysis. However, it in turn was quoting the Chinese CDC statistics dating to February 11th. That dataset is older, fairly small once split into various categories, and likely to heavily skew towards more severe cases given how overwhelmed and underprepared the health system (and everyone else) was early on. [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130