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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by garmaine on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:30PM (#22446571)
The case numbers are being severely undercounted though. People aren’t getting tested unless they present severe symptoms.

If you look at the Diamond Princess, where seemingly everybody was exposed to the virus, the actual death rate was about 0.4%, which is within error bars of the flu.

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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by vkou on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#22446823)
3 more people just died, so it's now 0.8%.

Given how it can take weeks to die after being infected, I doubt they will be the last deaths.

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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by in_cahoots on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:57PM (#22447199)
Cruises also skew significantly older than the overall population. It’ll be awhile until we know the final numbers, but what we know so far is reassuring.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by brewdad on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:50PM (#22446752)
This will likely go higher as many cases are still hospitalized with severe complications.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by wildrhythms on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:56PM (#22446791)
Please define "many cases" and "severe complications". I'm interested.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by brewdad on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:03PM (#22446842)
Good luck finding any official numbers but a UK citizen from the cruise died this morning, so it's not over yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51677846

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