Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by m4rtink on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:11PM
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More dangerous infection often kill their hosts before they can infect many others, so might result in horrendous dead toll locally but might find it hard to spread very far.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by malandrew on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:21PM
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My understanding is that it isn't the death rate that makes this different but how long it incubates for, allowing it to spread much further. The death rate could have been much higher and we'd probably still end up with a pandemic.