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The article incorrectly reported that statistic? I’m just making sure I understand.

• DannyBee 4y ago
  Yes. They are weasel wording it by saying "the illness has been fatal in up to 6% of infections". "the illness" here refers to a different variant of monkeypox than is currently being transmitted (or they are averaging the 1% fatal and 10% fatal variants). So it's the same illness only in the sense that both are monkeypox. They know all this, and are deliberately wording it this way so they can say it is more fatal than it is. Not that monkeypox is awesome, mind you, but the fact remains the current circulating variant is not the one that has been fatal in up to 6% of cases. (and also, that 6% is mostly children under 16. Again, not awesome, but the children dying in central africa to monkeypox, and children in the US/Europe/etc, have ... slightly different common health profiles )
  • dwaltrip 4y ago
    Thanks for clarifying, that is helpful.