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That is 2.5% of patients, not 2.5% of the population if it spreads everywhere. Not everyone who is exposed to coronavirus gets sick enough to be counted as a p
by jefftk 5y ago
That is 2.5% of patients, not 2.5% of the population if it spreads everywhere.
Not everyone who is exposed to coronavirus gets sick enough to be counted as a patient in those statistics
- dragontamer 5y agoThat's _just_ the ventilator. The people who would die because they are suffocating on their own mucus in their lungs. There's other ways to die from COVID19, such as heart attacks due to the disease, liver damage, etc. etc.
- nradov 5y agoCorrect. The CDC estimated that only about a quarter of US infections were officially counted as cases. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
- jefftk 5y agoI'm also not sure that "case" and "patient" are being used as synonyms here?