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Originally Posted by twdm
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...7-people-under
This article has a good tally on cases and deaths further down the page. There are 233 deaths out of 5883 confirmed cases in Italy which is ~4% mortality rate. Which does not line up with your 20% death rate. Please do let me know where your statistic came from. The US theoretically has a ~10% death rate, but I think that number is only because the screening rates do not capture the actual infection rates.
So if you add in the people who are undiagnosed due to trivial symptoms, the absolute mortality rate is far less than what is reported.
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I already said, it's 20% when there's no adequate medical facility. It wasn't meant to make an argument that it's actually 20%, but rather arguing that your statement of low mortality rate is not true. It might be less deadly to say ebola or even SARS/MERS (over 10% on all of them). But it's HIGHLY deadly when comparing to seasonal flu. (sub 1%) AND it has EXTREMELY high transmission rate.