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Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by dijit on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:14AM (#22953285)
0.1% is the current mortality of flu, this has killed twice the yearly number of flu victims in a month. Could be explained by the huge infection rate possibly but it’s definitely more deadly by a wide margin.
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Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by atourgates on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:02PM (#22957394)
I agree totally. I haven't seemed much informed discussion along these lines, but the only two possabilities I see are:

1) The antibody studies are incorrect, and over-counting the infection rate.

2) COVID-19 spreads much more easily than influenza, and so a large percentage of the population has become infected much quicker than typical influenza spread patterns.

Neither option is great, though to me of the two, #2 seems more hopeful, since assumedly we'd get herd immunity relatively quickly.

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