MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns

Re:MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns by gamblor956 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:35PM (#22313569)

For example, using the simple methodology, SARS' death rate was only about 3%, and that was the number most media used during the outbreak. But years after the epidemic ended, once researchers had greater access to medical records, the death was determined to be 10-15%, or roughly 3-5x higher than originally reported.

In the cases of NCV, there is already significant evidence of under reporting of fatalities by Chinese authorities in Wuhan (some sources suggest that up to 90% of NCV deaths in China may be unreported).

And as the cruise ship stuck outside of Japan demonstrates, the virus may be far more virulent (i.e., contagious) than previously thought.

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Re:MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns by gamblor956 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:26PM (#22314276)

Followup: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/world/asia/china-coronavi...

China just changed how it classifies NCV cases to reduce the number of cases by eliminating those who are infected but not symptomatic meaning the numbers are even less reliable than they were before.

The problem with this is that a number of the superspreaders, like the British fellow that infected 11 other people, and the passenger that infected the cruise ship quarantined in Japan, were not symptomatic when they were infecting others.

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