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Death rate is between 5x-25x higher, hospitalization rate even higher than that. Regular flu has a .01 death rate, Covid is at .08 right now in Korea and like 4

• ComputerGuru 7y ago
  > Regular flu has a .01 death rate, Covid is at .08 right now in Korea and like 4% in Italy. Dude. You can’t mix units like that. The flu has a 0.095% death rate, S. Korea’s current Covid-19 death rate is 0.7%, and Italy’s rate is around 5%. You made both the flu and South Korea’s situation out to be ten times worse than they were.
  • senordevnyc 7y ago
    Actually think they just forgot the % sign, and added extra zeros to flu and Korea numbers. I think they meant to say 0.1% and 0.8%, which isn’t far off.
• playpause 7y ago
  It’s worth noting Italy’s much higher death rate is because the hospitals are full, and this is likely to happen in other countries soon. The proportion of Covid-19 patients that require intubation is much higher than that of flu. Several other European countries and the US are on roughly the same infection rate trajectory as Italy, just a few weeks behind. Unless they significantly slow it down, it seems likely their health systems will be overwhelmed too, and their death rates could start looking more like Italy’s.
  • cutemonster 7y ago
    In addition to that, I read that there are more old people in Italy too -- another factor contributing to the higher numbers there.
  • makomk 7y ago
    Italy is probably also just not testing people who don't have serious symptoms. They've been hovering around a 15% positive rate on tests, about half of which have to be hospitalized, which is a lot compared to other countries.
  • clarry 7y ago
    https://i.imgur.com/lFWUCZv.png https://i.imgur.com/lFWUCZv.png
    • danek_szy 7y ago
      Apparently Switzerland surpassed other countries and is now #2 for no of cases per million people... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries