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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by reincarnate0x14 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:09AM (#24730037)
Funny how places like Taiwan reacted far earlier and have near zero fatalities then.

I sometime forget to not bother commenting on overly politicized things on HN. Your own links show 20% potential asymptomatic influenza infections, which is only a tiny bit different from the estimated 80-95% on SARS-COV-2.

Downvote away though.

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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by nradov on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:27PM (#24731519)
That is not scientifically accurate. During the USS Theodore Roosevelt outbreak only 19% of cases were asymptomatic. Those sailors were generally younger and healthier than the general population so if anything we would expect the overall rate of asymptomatic cases to be lower.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315794/

So where are you coming up with that 80-95% number?

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