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Re:Show HN: Compare Covid death probabilities to skydiving a... by davidajackson on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:46PM (#22970915)
Mine was estimated at .007% which it said was equivalent to: 14 dives of scuba diving

Is scuba diving really that dangerous? Curious where you get the data from.

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Re:Show HN: Compare Covid death probabilities to skydiving a... by repied on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:56AM (#22976239)
Hi, the data is coming from the wikipedia page linked at the bottom. I haven't tried to check if the data was correct or not. But for scuba diving, the page refers to a study by British Sub-Aqua Club. "UK Diving Fatalities Review" and states that there are 5 'micromort' per dive, which means 5 death for one million dives, which is a frequency of death per dive of 0.0005%.
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