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Re:California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans ... by woeirua on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:43PM (#23826444)
You're misinterpreting it. It says that for every 1 fatality there are 19 covid patients that have longlasting complications. It doesn't state though how many mild, uncomplicated cases there will be for every 1 hospitalized, i.e. what the denominator is. For example, if there are 1000 cases for every hospitalized case, then 19/1000 isn't that high.
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Re:California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans ... by refurb on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:45PM (#23826475)
I’m still confused. We know the fatality rate is ~1% (0.6% as per CDC’s latest).

So for every death there are 99 other cases. There is no way that 19 of those have permanent disabilities. That would means several million Americans are seriously disabled by the virus.

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Re:California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans ... by fragmede on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:57PM (#23827733)
The Quora link cites sources if you doubt the math.
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Re:California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans ... by refurb on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:19PM (#23828134)
They are funky. The source of the “19% had heart damage” is 19% of those hospitalized.

We know that approximately 10-20% of all cases are hospitalized. So that 19% is actually 2-4% (19% of 10-20%).

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