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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by bosie on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:20AM (#22202844)
> I don't believe for a moment that China would've attempted to quarantine 60 million people so quickly if the case fatality rate were only 2%. 2% is bad but SARS saw around 15% in many countries and things weren't locked down this tightly.

presumably fatality is only one of many factors here. 15% of 100 infections is a different beast than 2% of 1M. And if it takes up to 14 days to see symptoms...

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by inferiorhuman on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:32PM (#22207493)
15% of 100 infections is a different beast than 2% of 1M.

There were roughly 8,000 SARS infections and currently about 10,000 nCoV infections so the comparisons aren't quite as absurd.

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