[ExI] The COVID-19 death rate is 3.4%

[Dylan Distasio]

I'm not panicking yet either, but I work in Manhattan, NYC and take the
train in 3 days a week from CT (on the plus side, I avoid the subway, but
it's still public transportation).  The outbreak in Westchester county NY
with no known source has me concerned:

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/05/2-more-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-nyc/




On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:48 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I’m not panicking YET, but in my metro area they accidentally let out a
> lady who tested positive. She visited a grocery store 500m for me on the
> busiest day of business we have seen in the last 6 months. RIP.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Mar 5, 2020, at 11:30 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> The World Health Organization just said the death rate for the 2019
> coronavirus is 3.4%, that's about 34 times higher than the death rate for
> seasonal flu. The earlier estimate was 2% but as we learn more it's gone
> up. The head of the W.H.O. Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:
>
> “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison,
> seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”
>
> Coronavirus (COVID-19) Mortality Rate
> <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/>
>
> In a interview with Sean Hannity on State TV that well known expert on
> infectious viral diseases Donald Trump said "Well, I think the 3.4 percent
> is really a false number".
>
>  John K Clark
>
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