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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by therealmarv on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:31PM (#22195902)
NCOV (new corona) 2%, SARS (2012) around 10%, yearly normal flu around 0.01%-0.05% and Ebola 50-90%
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by jansan on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:34PM (#22196602)
During the SARS outbreak in April 2003 the reported rate was around 3.5% (58 deaths on 1622 "probable cases").

Source: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/press2003_04_01/en/

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by _-___________-_ on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:52AM (#22200918)
What's your point? I don't think it obviously follows that the NCOV fatality rate is under-reported just because the SARS fatality rate was.
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by dang on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:24AM (#22199321)
Please don't do this here.

We've fixed the typo in the GP comment.

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