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Old 03-24-2020, 12:32 PM   #2640
Harvey Specter
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Originally Posted by underscore View Post
In what way? It's projected to infect 95% of the population, not everyone gets serious symptoms but those that do are of no use to anyone til they recover. Countries that are spreading it out and have decent health care are hitting a ~4% fatality rate. The US does not have good healthcare so if they don't take any action and everyone gets hit at once 10% sounds like a very attainable number.
I wouldn't hang on every word and number the WHO is reporting. Go back and look at the numbers they reported for the Ebola outbreak, they were way way off and anyone that challenged them during that outbreak was called a conspiracy nutjob.
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