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Re:India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims by Exmoor on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:53AM (#27217897)
> What do feeling have to do with facts. COVID has at most 1% mortality rate.

The basis for this is data from places with at least some level of health care. From the reports I'm hearing, a lot of India's rural population is not making it medical care.

Also, worth mentioning that 1% of India's population is 13.8 million people.

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Re:India's holiest river Ganges is swollen with Covid victims by dukeofdoom on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:10AM (#27217977)
1% of those that get the disease. Not everyone. I would expect the average Indian to fare better than the average American due to the population being younger. Some stats on age and comorbidities.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

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