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03-03-2020, 04:08 PM | #572 |
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BIG_DUMMY likes to follow me around these days and call me names because he thinks I had him banned from the Science is Cool thread. It was his own typical anti-vaxx nonsense of course, and I had nothing to do with it. Regardless, he's been butthurt ever since...
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03-03-2020, 05:07 PM | #574 |
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MSNBC is touting around a 3.4% mortality rate now. Which obviously isn't fully accurate, but meh.
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03-03-2020, 05:20 PM | #576 |
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03-03-2020, 05:21 PM | #577 | |
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03-03-2020, 05:47 PM | #578 | |
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Real mortality rate isn't even that helpful though since so many people will have it and be asymptomatic. Mortality rate once you get sick is probably what people will want to know most - controlling for age and other conditions. |
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03-03-2020, 06:43 PM | #580 |
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I'm not that worried about myself personally - but my 79-year old Dad is a concern, and I just found out my mom has hypertension - which I didn't know. The goal imo is to keep them safe until a vaccine comes out in a year and a half or whatever. It won't fully protect them, but it may lessen the severity if they get it (assuming it works like the flu vaccine).
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03-03-2020, 07:07 PM | #581 |
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What is the mortality rate for a 35 year old compared to the regular flu?
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03-03-2020, 07:11 PM | #582 |
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Rates are a subject of much debate, but yes this is far more deadly than normal flu.
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03-03-2020, 07:50 PM | #583 |
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I realize this but what I'm looking to find out is how much more deadly is it than the flu for young adults or middle aged adults? If it's only say 5x more deadly than the flu for adults, but 50x more dangerous than the flu for old people then we can plan accordingly and decide how much exposure we really care about.
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There's a possibility that death rate won't be that bad long term. It sounds like most of the dead in china are elderly men who smoked most of their lives. Smoking rates are lower in other countries. That said, so far we don't have any evidence in the U.S. that the death rate will be lower. |
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