Mortality Rate of Covid-19 Is 0.5%, Much Lower Than CDC / WHO Claims

Re:Mortality Rate of Covid-19 Is 0.5%, Much Lower Than CDC /... by rogerkirkness on Sunday March 15, 2020 @11:04PM (#22589398)

To be entirely fair to the statistics presented here, it is suggesting that only 4% of people require hospitalization assuming 60% are in fact asymptomatic but positive tests.

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Re:Mortality Rate of Covid-19 Is 0.5%, Much Lower Than CDC /... by cjbprime on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:16AM (#22589891)

True enough! The 4% would still overwhelm any country's health system. E.g. US has around 300,000 available hospital beds, and 4% of population is 13M, 43x higher.

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