Yeah, right.
The influenza typically has a case fatality rate of about 0.1%. The coronavirus is approaching 4% fatality. That is a LOT higher than the flu. This, along with the easy transmissibility, makes Covid-19 very concerning.
I would expect a medical doctor to know a little more about infectious disease.
On Mar 15, there were 162,687 cases and 6,065 deaths. On Mar 16, those numbers increased to 182,405 cases and 7,154 deaths. That is the highest daily jump in cases and deaths that I have seen since I started keeping a spreadsheet.
I would say that the infection control measures are completely appropriate. No one is immune, so without controls, the disease would just sweep through and kill millions.
Unprecedented! Hahahahahahaha!
” The coronavirus is approaching 4% fatality. “
We don’t know that because we don’t know how large the infected population is.
When they say 4 percent fatality rate, they’re saying 4 percent of the people with symptoms. Yet if hundreds of thousands of people have the virus but don’t exhibit symptoms, then the number of deaths is a much smaller percentage of the overall number of cases.
Problem is, we haven’t tested many people - and even now the government isn’t only going to give tests to people with symptoms. So we’re now trying to find out how many people have the virus but have no symptoms.
The influenza typically has a case fatality rate of about 0.1%. The coronavirus is approaching 4% fatality.
4%? Well I heard that 83% of statistics are made up right on the spot. Spanish Flu was about 2.5%. The corona Y2K cold is most assuredly NOT 4%.
Italy cases should be alarming but noooooo. It’s just a cold with evil big gov grabbing power.
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Out of Stanford 2.5% Spanish Flu. And you say this corona cold is 60% more deadly? Please... not seeing it. As for more spreadable, in two weeks I’m not seeing exponential spreading. I am seeing something that would normally not even be noticed.
The regular flu this year was just as contagious and was orders of magnitude more deadly. This is a politically induced, MSM media and social media driven mass hysteria panic and nothing else.
“I would expect a medical doctor to know a little more about infectious disease.”
Think about what you said. Think it all the way through. Maybe it’s -you- that is wrong.
If this, if that, millions die, blah blah. Nonsense bs expert whatever you are.
There is no qualified medical expert on this subject. The source data isn’t reliable whatsoever
deaths / known cases /= accurate death rate. There are many more cases that have not been tested or diagnosed where people had little or no symptoms and recovered on their own.
There’s a fundamental flaw in your statistics. We know that the vast majority of infected have few or no symptoms. You write that there were 162,687 cases on March 15. Really? You really believe we have such a precise world wide count of everyone exposed to this virus? If so, that’s ridiculous.
You also wrote that no one is immune to this virus. Nearly 7 billion people on this planet and you know for a fact none are immune? Again, that’s a ridiculous assertion. If 80% are essentially asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms—another reported statistic we can’t really know for sure—that sounds like pretty good immunity to me.
Now I’m not saying this virus is harmless. What I am saying is there are all sorts of unknowns at this point. I think this is what Ron Paul was pointing out. People’s opinions are not scientific fact.
Not true. According to the most detailed statistics, from South Korea, it had a 0.7% fatality rate. Still higher than flu, but mainly because of a higher rate among the elderly.
The Diamond Princess stats are in line with this:
3,711 people on board
705 tested positive for the coronavirus
6 died
All 6 were more than 70 years old.
Fatality rate: 0.85 percent.
The hysteria is way overblown. Keep grandma away from Wuhan Flu. Otherwise, don't worry too much about it.
An unborn human faces about a 25% rate.
According to our 'experts' that amount will STILL die; just be spread out over time.
Ok, let's keep it real. They can't know the fatality rate without testing EVERYONE. They are now only testing people showing symptoms that complain about them enough to go get tested. On top of that, there is a scarcity of tests.
There is hard evidence that there are carriers who present minor or no symptoms who will never be tested. All of these people would go into the denominator of the fatality rate.
No one should quote such fatality statistics as "facts." The fact is, we simply don't know what the fatality rate is, but it is definitely lower than what we can measure at the moment.
I’m guessing that once testing goes mainstream, the occurrences will increase a lot but the deaths, not so much, which will bring that percentage down.