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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by cjbprime on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:48PM (#22195391)
If nothing else, it's worse in that there's zero vaccination mitigation available. If the flu vaccine was 0% effective this year, that would also be a health emergency.

On top of that, it seems to have worse mortality rate, transmissibility rate, and asymptomatic contagion -- so a little worse in every way, probably.

As with the flu, you're very unlikely to be personally killed by it unless you're over 65, under 5, or in poor health.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by arielweisberg on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:53PM (#22195449)
I thought flu vaccine efficacy varies year to year and is frequently not that great.
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by mdorazio on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:11PM (#22195647)
You're correct. See [1]. It's usually less than 50% effective, and as low as 19%. A troubling fact is that effectiveness has been on a downward trend the last 4 years.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....

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