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Coronavirus Death Rate in Wuhan Is Lower than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Researchers calculated a 1.4 percent likelihood of dying in the city where the pandemic began. Earlier estimates ranged from 2 percent to 3.4 percent.
The new study calculated estimates based on cases in Wuhan as of Feb. 29, when there had been 48,557 confirmed patients and 2,169 deaths. The risk of death increased with age, “unlike any previously reported pandemic or seasonal influenza,” the researchers wrote.
While the overall symptomatic case fatality rate was 1.4 percent, for people who were 60 and older it was 2.6 percent. That makes the older age group about five times more likely to die than people with symptoms who were 30 to 59 years old, whose risk of dying was 0.5 percent. For those under 30, it was 0.3 percent.
Coronavirus Death Rate in Wuhan Is Lower than Previously Thought, Study Finds
I think that is according to WHO. Hard to trust though, so who knows. If the numbers are true, then at least it is better news.
Anyone have any idea of the numbers of Wuhan citizens that contracted the disease? Just wondering as far as percentage.
Tried googling it but couldn't find it. I guess we could never know the actual number, considering that we would be relying commie Chinese government to tell us.
Researchers calculated a 1.4 percent likelihood of dying in the city where the pandemic began. Earlier estimates ranged from 2 percent to 3.4 percent.
The new study calculated estimates based on cases in Wuhan as of Feb. 29, when there had been 48,557 confirmed patients and 2,169 deaths. The risk of death increased with age, “unlike any previously reported pandemic or seasonal influenza,” the researchers wrote.
While the overall symptomatic case fatality rate was 1.4 percent, for people who were 60 and older it was 2.6 percent. That makes the older age group about five times more likely to die than people with symptoms who were 30 to 59 years old, whose risk of dying was 0.5 percent. For those under 30, it was 0.3 percent.
Coronavirus Death Rate in Wuhan Is Lower than Previously Thought, Study Finds
I think that is according to WHO. Hard to trust though, so who knows. If the numbers are true, then at least it is better news.
Anyone have any idea of the numbers of Wuhan citizens that contracted the disease? Just wondering as far as percentage.
Tried googling it but couldn't find it. I guess we could never know the actual number, considering that we would be relying commie Chinese government to tell us.
