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We had the information at the very beginning. March 2020 on Theodore Roosevelt, out of 4,800 sailors one died with covid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COV

• ben_w 4y ago
  OTOH, Diamond Princess, 3711 on board, 712 infected, between 7 and 14 died ("from vs with" dispute as I understand it). There's a lot of differences between a navy crew and a luxury cruise ship, but IFR estimates for COVID still vary a lot by nation: 0.2-1.3% around the beginning of the pandemic, and even now the CFR (which is always higher as IFR accounts for unsymptomatic cases) is 1.9% in Brazil, 18%(!) in Yemen, 0.2% in Cyprus, and a bit less than 0.1% in Singapore: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
  • slaw 4y ago
    Diamond Princess avarage age of passenger was 84. We had all the information.
    • ben_w 4y ago
      And the average age of people in Yemen is 20.2. Look, I get that old people are more vulnerable than young, and that's still true if I were to add the words "to COVID" to that statement. But you know what? That's not helpful on either a personal, community, national, nor global level; and saying we had "all the information" on the basis of stuff like that is about as accurate as saying "answers in Genesis" as a response to anything about evolution.