Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big coronavirus epidemic

Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by the_af on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:31PM (#22485722)

Thanks for the reply. What is the fatality rate among the elderly and high risk patients for seasonal flu? (say, in the US if there are no worldwide statistics).

I understand the real problem with any flu-like disease is precisely with the elderly and high risk patients. Usually, of course there are always cases of healthy people who die from a flu.

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Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by tomtheelder on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:02PM (#22486053)

Somewhere around 1%. The 10x multiplier on fatality rate seems to be fairly consistent across age groups. Note that the CFR for this virus is still largely unknown, and is vastly different in different regions.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

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Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by eric-hu on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:58PM (#22486015)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

These are worldwide statistics. Breakdown is by age, but I don't recall if there's other categories.

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