01-28-2020, 07:17 AM
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Originally posted by PaulW
Meanwhile, thousands of seasonal flu-related deaths hardly get a mention.
https://www.contagionlive.com/news/cdc-r...920-season
Hawaii is one of the 35 states with high activity.
Influenza kills about 0.1% of people who are infected with it in "regular" years. We don't have a death rate for the coronavirus because most of the people that are known to be infected haven't died or recovered yet. But guesses range from 4-15% Using the low end of the scale that would make the coronavirus 2000% more deadly than the flu. Twice as deadly as smallpox. We also don't know the exact transmission rate but the most educated guesses range from 4-8 times higher than influenza. I've had the flu, it sucked. I would REALLY not want to have something that is substantially worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hu...lity_rates