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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by 11thEarlOfMar on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:30AM (#22433528)
According to Johns Hopkins data Feb 27, 2020 [0], Iran would come to:

Deaths: 26

Recovered: 49

(26 / (26 + 49)) = 34.7%

[0] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by CrazyStat on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:16AM (#22433962)
We can conclude that Iran is severely underreporting cases.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by hanspeter on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:01AM (#22434378)
Or severely overreporting deaths.
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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by gentleman11 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:41PM (#22436963)
We also have that Iran does not have the health care system to even provide proper equipment for their health staff. This is a case of massive under reporting, but unfortunately that means they are not containing it and do not even know the extent of their problem. That is the teal worry with Iran, not some super deadly variant

The diamond princess saw almost 100% exposure and only 0.5% of people died who got infected. Depending if you choose that stat, or the 2% WHO star, that suggests 15-100x more cases are in Iran than their lousy health system realizes.

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