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Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers by ejstronge on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:47PM (#22619293)
> For comparison, the death rate across all age groups of flu is 0.1%. Extrapolating out, a failure to contain the virus will still mean tens of thousands of young healthy people dying in every country.

I’m not sure why you’re comparing the all-age mortality of flu to the age-specific mortality of COVID-19.

The relevant metric would be about 0.02% [1]

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

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Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers by bronipstid on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:47PM (#22620481)
Why not? It's just giving some context to people who may think .2% is a "low" mortality rate.

Thanks for the age specific number. That shows my point even more.

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Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers by ejstronge on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:53PM (#22620561)
Ah, I wasn't sure what point you were trying to make, but I thought the all-age figure understates how much more deadly COVID-19 is compared to influenza.
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