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For sure, to have an accurate number you need to wait until all cases resolved AND you need to have thorough testing to know what the total number of cases were
by tempestn 7y ago
For sure, to have an accurate number you need to wait until all cases resolved AND you need to have thorough testing to know what the total number of cases were. Good to see that it may not have been quite as bad as thought in Wuhan. That said, they did enact pretty strict quarantine measures there and massively surged hospital capacity, so it's not like that number represents total healthcare collapse either. Regardless, to me it seems to great to just say it's outweighed by the costs of control measures, especially since there is another path to take.
- averros 7y agoNote that the estimate of mortality in the article (which is about 3x of the normal flu) is relative to symptomatic cases. The actual mortality is lower by a factor of 6 or so, considering the percentage of cases which are asymptomatic.