To have any idea about how the number of infected and dead compare to the lethality of this Virus we need to know two things. The mean time it takes someone to die from the virus after it is recognized they have it... And when most of those healthcare workers were first recognized to be infected.
We don't have anything like either of those numbers, but as it stands if you want to use recovered .vs dead it is about 18% die and 82% recover, not that that is perfectly accurate either. However maybe in the end we can presume that the true rate lies neither ate 1 or 2% not at 18% but somewhere in the middle. And just what that rate is will hugely depend on the health of those infected. On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 9:57 AM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 3:37 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ...Most appear to be okay now. <end> >> >> >> Citation? > > > Dr. Peng and other researchers wrote that 40 health care professionals at his > hospital had been infected in January, a third of the cases included in a > study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. > . . . > > Another doctor had started to show symptoms early last month, before medical > professionals knew to take extra precautions, according to the state-run > Health Times newspaper. He died this past Monday. > > > . . . and some other articles. >
