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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom Dr. Fauci this morning: Coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than the flu.
Can we finally put this lie that the flu is worse to bed?!?!?!?
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From Dr. Fauci this morning: Coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than the flu. (Original Post)
Coventina
Mar 2020
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Squinch
(51,021 posts)1. Yeah, only its more like 20 times.
we don't KNOW because we don't know how many people were actually infected.
but the last time I got decent data from John Hopkins... the rate as calculated from known infections and known outcomes (over 50,000 in the population)... and the rate was close to 5.5%
Now, that rate is too high... it isn't 5.5%... but it might be 2% or even 3%... it is unlikely to be ONLY 1%... and 1% is 10 times more than the flu.
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)5. I'm happy with a formal 10x declaration.
Once we can move past "the flu's more deadly" we are making progress.
Turin_C3PO
(14,077 posts)2. Amen.
I dont know why we have some DUers spreading that shit. Its Trumpian propaganda.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. That's a speculative minimum. But I'll take it.