WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by svara on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:09PM (#22197500)

We can speculate all night, it remains speculation. All I've done is use the numbers you suggested to point out inconsistencies. Yet you keep finding reasons for why we are almost literally all going to die (with mortality rates of up to around 50%), when you have no more insight into this than anyone else in this thread.

Everybody is taking this seriously, but playing prophet of doom is really shitty and has all sorts of potential negative consequences in the real world.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by mrb on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:18PM (#22198703)

I suppose I didn't communicate clearly. I never said we are all going to die. For one, we are probably going to find a vaccine or treatment. And the eventual observed CFR may end up being in the lower end of what I quote (9%) instead of the upper end (56%).

You tried to point out 1 inconsistency, and I replied back saying it wasn't an inconsistency ("0 actual vs 2 expected is statistically insignificant.") It's too early to tell if the CFR outside China will differ from the CFR in China.

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