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Quoted from YeOldPinPlayer:Your math is misleading. 88,498 confirmed cases resulting in 3043 deaths so far is a 3.4% - IF you catch it. That’s a higher death rate than other infectious outbreaks in recent years.
I'd have to do some digging, but I remember reading the other day that the death rate falls well below 1% if you look at the deaths that occur outside of China.
As for your second statement of the death rate being higher than other infectious outbreaks, I'm really not sure where you pulled that one.
H5N1 (Bird Flu) - ~60% (Reference WHO)
AH7N9 (Bird Flu A) - 39.2% (Reference WHO)
Ebola - 25-90% - Average EVD 50% (Reference WHO)
MERS - 34.4% (Reference WHO)
ZIKA - 8.3% (NCBI Reference)
1 week later
A buddy of mine told me they cancelled all in-person classes for the remainder of the semester at West Chester University. He daughter is going to be taking everything remotely.
Quoted from Bublehead:The virologists will confirm that in a pandemic, the viral strain is not static. It can and will mutate as it spreads. If it mutates to a wider populace demographic, which could happen at any time, we could be toast. Which is why pandemics are pandemic.
It makes you wonder how much the use of massive amounts of sanitizer and disinfectant is going to accelerate this process. Before everyone bashes me, I'm not advocating you don't clean things, I'm just thinking out loud.
Sounds like a losing proposition either way you go. Don't disinfect things and more people get infected, disinfect everything and potentially accelerate / cause a mutation.
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