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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by deelowe on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:56PM (#25022785)
Define worse. Ebola is much deadlier, but its kind of hard to spread a virus that causes you to bleed from your face.
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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by hedora on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:28PM (#25022989)
Ebola’s R value is 2, which is enough to create large outbreaks if left unchecked.

The death rate is 50%, which is 100x higher than COVID’s 0.5% (which has been lowered to 0.125% with improved hospital care).

In the absence of a coordinated pandemic response, I count that as “worse”.

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