<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 5, 2020, at 11:30 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font size="4">The World Health Organization just said the death rate for the 2019 coronavirus is 3.4%, that's <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">about </span>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 <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">of</span> the W.H.O. Adhanom Ghebreyesus<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> said: </span></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4">“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”</font><div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/">Coronavirus (COVID-19) Mortality Rate</a><br></font><div><br></div><div><font size="4">In a interview with Sean Hannity <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on State TV</span> that well known expert on infectious viral diseases Donald Trump said "Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number".<br><br> John K Clark </font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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