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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by vonmoltke on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:21PM (#22607364)
Based on the CDC's numbers for the US[1], less than 2% of seasonal flu cases require hospitalization at all. This disease is at about 20% (based on detected infections). Even if 75% of infections are really undetected and asymptomatic, we're still looking at about 3 times the number of hospitalizations as seasonal flu.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

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Re:50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic by easytiger on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:53PM (#22608704)
This doesn't make sense.

The flu figures are statistically derived. The cv2 figure is derived from literally actual test cases only, which represent a tiny tiny tiny subset.

They cannot surely be compared, unless I'm missing something

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