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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by etchalon on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:48PM (#29634011)
The world wide survival rate is around 2%. So for every 50 people who are infected, only 1 will die.

So the stories are the exception.

However, they're also very common.

If 1 out of every 50 people who ate at a McDonald's in America died, 50,000 people would die every day [https://financesonline.com/number-of-mcdonalds-in-north-amer...].

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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by stephen_g on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:08AM (#29634117)
I assume you meant mortality rate, not survival rate there.
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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by nradov on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:15AM (#29634152)
The world wide infection fatality rate is nowhere near 1 in 50. The CDC estimated the US fatality rate at 0.6% back when hardly anyone was vaccinated, and Americans have worse survival rates than most other countries due to having a relatively old and unhealthy population.
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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by etchalon on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:42PM (#29728196)
The CDC did not estimate a 0.6% fatality.

I have no idea why you think they did, but that never happened.

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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by nradov on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:18PM (#29819326)
Please stop spreading misinformation. The CDC absolutely did estimate a 0.6% infection fatality rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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