I've read other article that let hope less mortality, but it will be huge because we don't realize millions of people already die every year.
The ratio of dead over contaminated may be less dramatic , event if the health care professional are well treated. 1- The reason is that people maybe be asymptomatic (it is a problem with that virus which however stays contagious) 2- with time and propagation (through asymptomatic and slightly sick people) the virus should lose mortality as seen often Nothing is sure but it is considered in many articles... Anyway, it is very contagious, and if the usual mortality of flu is expected 0.1%, the 2.5 million death on the planet is a huge death toll... it may be worse, not because of mortality only, but because more people are contaminated than by usual flu... It may be few times if not a dozen times more than usual if the mortality is high as seen for the health care workers... 10 million, 30 million as some says... In France thus can be estimated as many times the usual 10000 annual toll... 50000 ? or much less if people start to behave consistently, washing hand, not going to work when sick, wearing mask when sick, and even if very sick, we may be well treated with the experience of the Chinese doctors (there is some helpful old drugs), or simply treating consistently the bacterial complication like for flu... (for me as asthmatic it was antibiotic for my January flu). My prediction is that we will nearly all catch it, and probably feel just a cough... but for few of us it will be serious. Take care! Le ven. 14 févr. 2020 à 22:58, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Those are quotes, not citations. I was looking for a citation for your > comment that "Most appear to be okay now." I have seen quotes that the > mortality rate is 15.6%. > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 3:57 PM 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. >> >>
