Re: Is this China virus gig really a threat?
Originally Posted by
lebonvin
Is this China virus gig really a threat?.
It is if you're elderly, or very young and/or have respiratory disease, but even then it seems less deadly than the garden variety seasonal flu. So far the death toll is 2% of those infected compared to an estimated 10% at the height of the U.S. 2017-18 flu season in which 61,000 people died (~34,000 in 2018-19). Compared to other recent epidemics it barely rates. The sustained overblown media hype may do more harm than the virus.
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