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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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