[xJones]

I'm not going to sit up nights worrying, few cases have been reported in the West, and if you are a tremendous statistical improbabily, the death rate is is 4%. NBD

[kegler4]

"I'm not going to sit up nights worrying, few cases have been reported in the West, and if you are a tremendous statistical improbabily, the death rate is is 4%."

This is spreading all over the world and probably will continue doing so. Toronto is being hit hard and it's most certainly in the west. After talking to my wife, who is a nurse, I'm MUCH more concerned about this than I am about a terrorist attack.

[R W Reactionairy]

"I'm not going to sit up nights worrying, few cases have been reported in the West, and if you are a tremendous statistical improbabily, the death rate is is 4%."

This is the death rate based on total reported cases, not those where the disease has run it corse... and the PRC types are not being candid by any stretch.

There are also a fairly large number [10 to 20 percent by some reports] of those stricken that require "artificial ventilation." Some of these would probably survive without artificial ventilation, but absent heavy duty health services the death rate soars.

The flip side is that there are probably some very mild cases which are not being reported, but that is both good and bad news. More vectors hence more infections -- but better survival rates.

In any event 4 percent is a medical disaster in the making. The question is still just how easily transmissable this bug really is.