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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by consp on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:44AM (#22433135)
A 1% death rate in people without known complications (even 0.2% which seems pervasive in every age group) is orders of magnitude higher than for instance flu. And it spreads easily and is contagious before symptoms. Sounds like something you should be aware of.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by nik_s on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:02AM (#22433275)
Actually, multiple orders of magnitude...The Flu has a mortality rate of 2 per 100k [1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm

[edited - reformatted numbers to avoid localization issues]

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by microtherion on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:00AM (#22433799)
That's 2 per 100k of the overall population, not 2 per 100k who get sick.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by qayxc on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:01AM (#22433812)
>The Flu has a mortality rate of 2 per 100k Nope, it doesn't. Mortality rate is not the same as annual deaths per capita. The number you quoted refers to the same context as traffic-related deaths per 100,000 population, which is 3.1 per 100,000 in the UK. This doesn't mean that if you are in traffic-related incident, you only have a 0.0031% of dying! Same with influenza - the mortality rate is 0.1%-0.15% (average season) up to 1.25%-5% (pandemic flu) [1]

[1] https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/ops/hsc-scen-3_flu-p...

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by LegitShady on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:28AM (#22433519)
Commas and decimals are not interchangeable
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by d3ckard on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:58AM (#22433779)
And US doesn’t set worldwide standards for their use.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by collyw on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:56AM (#22433763)
They are if you switch between Spanish and English.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by LegitShady on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:20PM (#22454461)
Don't design planes.
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