How might the coronavirus change our world?

Re:How might the coronavirus change our world? by soared on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:49PM (#22253046)

1.5B is a massive overestimate, where is that number from? 1 in 7 people in the entire world got sick?

WHO: 8,000 deaths, 630k laboratory confirmed cases, 43-89 million got sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_H1N1/09_virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

Spanish flu on the other hand killed 3-6% of the world's population!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

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Re:How might the coronavirus change our world? by nostrademons on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:43PM (#22258237)

It's estimated that 10-20% of the world population caught H1N1 swine flu. 1 in 7 is a rough midpoint of that:

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2011/08/study-put...

The CDC estimated 60M cases in the U.S. alone, about 20% of the population:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

The WHO gave up tracking cases on July 23, 2009, 3 months after the epidemic started, when it hit several hundred thousand confirmed cases. At that point it just became a part of seasonal flu. It's circulating again this year: in recent weeks it's been the most common seasonal flu variant infecting people, and with 19M flu cases so far this year, there have almost certainly been more deaths from H1N1 than from nCoV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_timeline#Jul...

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