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Don't forget containment failed.

• grawprog 7y ago
  Normally a comment like yours lacking any kind of reasonable explanation or arguement would be against hn's rules, but I'm assuming in this time of crisis this will be ignored. That doesn't explain how it's more deadly. More deadly implies it kills more people faster. This is very much not the case no matter how much it's spread and by comparison, it's still contained more than both of those other pandemics were. Those each affected millions of people over a few months. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ We're at 167,543 with a total of 76,590 recoveries as of this comment. For a website full of people used to dealing with big numbers there sure seems to be a lot of blind just ignoring of said numbers in exchange for emotional reaction.
  • gridlockd 7y ago
    By the rate of mortality, it kills way more people than H1N1 or the 2014 flu. By the rate of infection, it infects more people than SARS or MERS and already has done so. None of these diseases managed to overwhelm the healthcare system of a developed nation like Italy. Clearly, the potential danger is therefore far greater than any of those "closed cases". Furthermore, the "deadliest" viruses in terms of rate and velocity of death are not as dangerous to the population as a whole, because most of the infected people fall over dead before infecting anyone else. > We're at 167,543 with a total of 76,590 recoveries as of this comment. We're also doubling the number of cases every 2.5 days in those countries that haven't managed to contain the spread. In Italy, that number (~20,000) has exceeded the capacity of the healthcare system.