HappyJoy
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You get a more accurate number than going by figures where not all the people who have the disease have been tested. That means the rest of the world, dumbass.What have I posted that isn't a fact?No, it doesn't carry any more weight. Facts are facts.Neat.
Danfromsquirrelhill has an opinion and a Wordpress page.
Cool. Does it carry more weight if it's coming from epidemiology experts including Dr. Fauci, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine?
A fatality rate like that of "a severe influenza... considerably less than 1%" -- Dr. Fauci's words, not Danfromsquirrelhill's
You should maybe have your chubby little fingers post facts for a change.
The premise of this thread that by looking at Iceland alone and ignoring the rest of the world we can deduce the mortality rate.
For the record, South Korea also did extensive testing, and had something like a .77% mortality rate.
As of this week, South Korea had just over 9,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, which puts it among the top 10 countries for total cases. But South Korea has another distinction: Health experts are noting that recently the nation has managed to significantly slow the number of new cases. And the country appears to have reined in the outbreak without some of the strict lockdown strategies deployed elsewhere in the world.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .They've used testing aggressively to identify cases — not only testing people who are so sick that they're hospitalized but also mild cases and even suspected cases. They've quarantined tens of thousands of people who may have been exposed to confirmed cases.
As of March 17th South Korea tested about 5200 out of a million or .52%.
Science | AAAS
www.sciencemag.org
In the meantime the United States has tested more yet the mortality rate has increased from about 1.3% in early March to around 2% now. Pretty sure the overall percentage will go down but more testing hasn't made that happen so far.
EDIT: COVID-19 Mortality Rate: A Grim Update | National Review
According to the Worldometer statistics (which are consistent with those compiled by Johns Hopkins University), the U.S. mortality rate has surged to 2.16 percent (4,099 deaths out of 189,711 reported cases as of this morning). Last week, it was about 1.5 percent. The U.S. rate is still less than half of the global rate of 5 percent (44,214 deaths out of 885,301 reported cases), which itself is probably a gross understatement (unless you believe the rosy reports from China — see Jim Geraghty’s nonpareil reporting on that, here and here, as well as our Zachary Evans’s report this morning). Nevertheless, the uptick is alarming.
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