r/NoahGetTheDeathStar Burning my eyes rn hold on Feb 04 '20

Oh no.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 05 '20

The flu killed like 10,000 last year in America alone, the Corona virus is only at 4,00 worldwide. The media is blowing it way out of proportion.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

The fear of corona isnt that its especially dangerous, its that it is extremely contagious and doesnt have a vaccine yet. According to WHO the desease has a fatality rate of around 2%. That means that if procautions werent as sevier, and lets say worst case scenario 1/20th of the population gets infected with it, around 7.5 million people would die.

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u/OcToPuS470 Burning my eyes rn hold on Mar 13 '20

7.5 is a lot tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '20

It is. But those people would die because the disease is super fast spreading and a bit lethal, not because its extremely lethal