Did you read the article you cited?Social_Drift wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:11 pm that's a simplification
that's mostly the elderly, and the flu is 1% as dangerousFlu Kills 646,000 People Worldwide Each Year
are you suggesting that the chinese are over-reacting?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... an-the-flu
Therexe2x80x99s considerable uncertainty about all these figures. Unlike with coronavirus, most cases of influenza arenxe2x80x99t laboratory-confirmed. That could mean wexe2x80x99re exaggerating the odds of dying from the current outbreak, because wexe2x80x99re measuring deaths only as a proportion of people whose symptoms were severe enough to merit testing.
The extraordinary burden being placed on the health system in Hubei may also be skewing things. More than 3% of cases there have resulted in death, but downriver in Zhejiang there have been no fatalities despite 1,117 confirmed cases. Across China outside Hubei, the fatality rate is around 0.4%.
So your 3% is only in Hubei, not elsewhere... hmmmm. PANIC everybody panic...
