Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by jiveturkey on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:42PM
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a doctor friend of mine, familiar with the situation, tells me that 2% is likely an order of magnitude high. That is because in China, only the very ill are getting diagnosed at all. Therefore. the number of deaths is roughly in line, but the number of cases is likely an order of magnitude low.
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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by bgee on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:23PM
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> That is because in China, only the very ill are getting diagnosed at all.
I don't think this is true, considering China has built new hospitals just for patients who are tested positive but have light symptoms [0].
China also sent 12500 testing kits to Japan [1].
[0]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/369522812
[1]: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200226/p2a/00m/0na/00...
Disclaimer: I'm from China.