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That’s it? So it has a 98.75% survival rate?
by underseacables 5y ago
That’s it? So it has a 98.75% survival rate?
- kube-system 5y agoYeah, "that's it". For context, that's: * 215% deadlier than anthrax. * 2150% deadlier than polio. * about the same as the average death rate between the two smallpox strains, and on-par with the spanish flu
- leereeves 5y agoThat's the CFR for cutaneous anthrax. Pulmonary and gastrointestinal anthrax CFRs are over 50%. Smallpox, variola major has a 30% CFR. Both are much worse than either covid or the flu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fat...
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- kube-system 5y agoI picked the specific comparisons I did because few would discount the concerns of a cutaneous anthrax infection or smallpox, variola minor. "Oh it's just a minor case of smallpox" said nobody. Yes, bad cases of smallpox and anthrax are worse than COVID. And, the flu is pretty bad, but COVID is significantly more deadly than the Influenza A.
- leereeves 5y agoWhen it was new, the "Spanish Flu" (influenza A subtype H1N1) killed as many people as covid killed in 2020, in a far younger, healthier population. Now people have immunity, so even though H1N1 is still around, it's not as deadly as it was in 1918. So while it's true that covid was more deadly than influenza in 2020, that's not because covid is inherently more deadly, but simply because people weren't immune to it yet. Now that we have a vaccine, and a significant number of people who've had the disease, covid death rates are much, much lower. Currently about 250 per day in the US, an annual rate of less than 100k per year, not much worse than the flu. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-7-day?tab=chart&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-7-day?...