I would note that the fatality rate is going to depend on the level of health care available!
So if things become overrun, the lethality rate double r more easily. On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 3:26 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Those are quotes, not citations. > > > Quotes from Chinese doctors who are treating people with the flu. That's > authoritative. > > >> >> 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%. > > > Surely not from authoritative sources? > > A few weeks ago experts in the Times said there was a very broad range of > estimates of mortality, but I think it has narrowed now. It was from 0.1 to > 5%. Not 15.6%. > > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html >