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Sorry this is not a "slightly worse flu". The "Spanish Flu" was both less virulent and less deadly and killed ~50 million world-wide. This is the mostly deadly
by satya71 7y ago
Sorry this is not a "slightly worse flu". The "Spanish Flu" was both less virulent and less deadly and killed ~50 million world-wide. This is the mostly deadly pandemic since the "Black Death" of medieval times.
- nostromo 7y agoIt’s not more deadly. The fatality rate is 0.6% or so, and almost entirely focused on the very old or il.
- MaybiusStrip 7y agoYou can't just cherry-pick South Korea's case fatality rate because it's convenient to your argument. The case fatality rate worldwide is currently 3.7%. Regardless of what the reasons for that may be and whether it will remain the same, that is a cold, hard, fact about the current reality. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#measuring-and-interpreting-the-case-fatality-rate https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#measuring-and-interpr...
- djsumdog 7y agoIt's no where near the Black Death. From what I've heard from multiple people are the limits are most likely a lower bound of 0.6% and an upper of maybe 1.5%. That's still a lot of people. America is ~330 million. 1% is more than 3 million. Assuming only 1/3 of Americans get infected, there could still be an upper bound of a million people dying (although it'll more like be 300k ~ 1m with all the efforts to spread out everything).