Replies to post #228986 on Biotech Values

[Solar_Express]

The mortality rate is much higher than 1%. Also reports of younger people having problems. Lets hope clinical trials can happen sooner than later. I have heard human studies in 90 days looking in depth.

[iwfal]

Last I heard the mortality rate was well below 1%

Nope. Some places do show nominally below 1. But some we know to be skewed (Korea - many haven’t yet been sick long enuf to die, plus cult was skewed female and young), and others the data is somewhat suspect. And, of course other look substantially higher (Italy) - altho they too suffer bias, albeit opposite.

To really red-pill look at the ratio of dead vs recovered in the wiki table:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_coronavirus_outbreak_by_country_and_territory

[biocqr]

At 1% COVID-19 would still be 10X more deadly than the flu.

If 20% of the U.S. population (350M) became infected that would equate to 700K deaths at a 1% mortality rate.

The flu has been responsible for 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.

[vinmantoo]

While I accept that even one death may cause grief for friends and family, it's beginning to sound like this isn't much worse than the common cold.

This is the kind of nonsense that tRUMP and his allies like Rush Limbaugh have been spreading. Regardless of how many people only get mild symptoms from COVID-19, the common cold doesn't cause death in 2% of those who get it or cause significantly more to need hospitalization.