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There are approx 3000 deaths in approx 82000 known cases. So about 3%. Is this what we compare to?
There have been 12 deaths in the Italian cluster of nearly 500 cases. This is slightly lower.
Is this what we compare to?
What about the ships?I mean. We'd need to do some sort of rate comparisons and look at different things like population involved (who dies and all that).
What do the dead people look like? Age? gender? co-morbidities?
What does the general infected population look like?
Chalfie
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Given that around 1-2% of people are dying from it, and normal flu is 0.01% fatal and that the most vunerable can't be vaccinated against it like flu, I'd say we very much should be doing what we can to contain it as much as possible. If we all get it that's somewhere around 1m dying in the UK. Quite a serious threat.