This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
It's 10x more lethal than the flu.
I came down with something in early February that put me on my ass.
Fever causing me to sweat, phlegm and a constant cough that made my pounding headache worse.
I bounced back within a few days. No idea what that was.
If you "bounced back within a few days" then it sounds like regular flu.
We don't know how lethal it is because we don't know how many people have it.
You won’t bounce back from the flu in a couple of days. That would be a cold.
I almost typed that. Agree.
If you had a lot of phlegm, it was probably seasonal flu. COVID-19 is specifically a dry cough.
It wasn't a lot of phlegm. I remember my head pounding every time I coughed which had never happened before. It came on very quickly after visiting a friend who's wife was sick.
I was sweating while running a meeting at work which never happens. I usually run hot but sweat pooling on my forehead was strange.
I went home early, worked from home the next day and went back in because colleagues couldn't figure out shit without me in the office.
I was washing my hands constantly and bought Lysol wipes.
Not saying it was the Chinese Wuhan virus just saying it was strange.
I just got back from international travel for work and I'm self quarantining right now.
I had the exact symptoms you had. But I ended up with pneumonia cause I’m older and have a weakened immune system. Glad you’re all better! But I beat the pneumonia too.
You can’t keep us elder pedes down. We’re tough and we’re pissed off.
10x may be a bit exaggerated due to the lack of testing. The limited tests were focused on the severely ill and at-risk. As more testing is done I believe that this rate will drop.
10x is the low estimate - it is being realized in countries that were able to contain their outbreaks below the capacity of their hospitals. In countries where the hospitals are overwhelmed, the fatality rate is averaging around 30x more lethal than the flu.
The rough breakdown is 80% mild symptoms - rest and recover at home. 15% severe symptoms - need hospitalization. 5% critical symptoms - need ICU care.
Of the critical cases that require an ICU, about 1 in 5 die no matter what. The prognosis for the other 4 depends on the availability of ICU care. If there are enough ventilators, enough monitors, enough doctors, enough nurses - most of them will recover. If there are not enough, most of them will die.
Spez - in case it wasn't obvious the flu death rate is about 0.1%, 10x is 1% which corresponds to the "1 in 5" of the 5% of critical cases. 30x corresponds to just over half of that same critical 5% dying.
Also, the people who survive do not appear to be "just fine" when they recover. We don't know the long term yet, but the people who require ventilation are fucked up by it and could be crippled for years or for life.
Data?
Cool story bro
How about you put a fucking ounce of effort in your comment.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-vs-the-flu-the-difference-between-a-1-and-0-1-fatality-rate-is-huge/
Quit being such a combative faggot and use bing.
Oh wow! A doctor associated with Trump said it so it must be true!
Except for that fact that he is either working with a limited data set or not using a data set at all.
Time to use those critical thinking skills for once in your life. I know high school was rough for you, but critical thinking is a skill that needs to be employed for life.
You asked for a source and I provided one. Are you going to source any of your retarded claims?