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In other virus news
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sekker wrote:
It’s serious because infected people can show no symptoms for a week or more.

Hard to lock things down when those infected don’t even know it.

And the MD who blew the whistle in China died today. It can kill even the healthiest of people (in this case, a 34 year old male IN a hospital).
BBC: On 30 December [Li Wenliang] sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection.

Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of "making false comments" that had "severely disturbed the social order".

Is it ironic if all the party thugs that made him sign the letter, end up dying of the disease he tried to warn them about...

freeradical wrote:
The CDC estimates that so far, 10,000-25,000 Americans have died of the flu in the 2019-2020 flu season.

That's with vaccines providing limited herd immunity and knowing which prescription antivirals to administer. Using a low estimate of how lethal 2019-nCoV is at 0.5% (or assuming China has under reported infections by nearly a magnitude and there are currently 100,000 to 300,000 patients), 20 million infected could mean 100,000 deaths.

A possibly positive statistic about nCoV is that diagnosed infections (assuming the the 28,353 number is accurate) have fallen below geometric growth. Watching the death rate for another three weeks will tell. The number (of known) dead world wide has hit 500 victims 43 days earlier than 2009 Swine Flu.
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