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• ryanSrich 2y ago
  6% and 4% for Covid and Influenza respectively. So 33% seems insanely high to me.
  • sp332 2y ago
    It's very worrying. But it's not 33% chance of death with every infection.
• GrantMoyer 2y ago
  I'm just a layman, but it looks like 33% might actually be the mortality rate. The WHO[1] and CDC[2] both report a case fatality rate over 50%. From the Wikipedia article Human mortality from H5N1[3]: > Public health officials in Ontario, Canada argue that the true case-fatality rate could be lower, pointing to studies suggesting it could be 14-33%, and warned that it was unlikely to be as low as the 0.1–0.4% rate that was built into many pandemic plans. Scary. [1]: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cumulative-number-of-confirmed-human-cases-for-avian-influenza-a(h5n1)-reported-to-who--2003-2024-28-march-2024 https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cumulative-number-of... [2]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/h5n1-technical-report_december.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/h5n1-t... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1