I had not heard that. That is concerning. the virus is here to stay but with natural immunity and a vaccine it should move into the category of a bad flu.I read somewhere that you can also get it twice. There is some immunity if you had it, but not total.Using Kalman Filter to Predict Corona Virus SpreadOutbreak InvestigationsO.k., do you have a link making sense of that statement, one that is not Breitbart?You need to educate yourself. Your simple analysis results in an incorrect conclusion. You need to consider all metrics in epidemic analytics. You are only looking at total deaths. You need to factor the number of individuals in the population that are susceptible to the disease, how contagious and how deadly the virus is.Most cases of the flu are also not recorded, but yeah, I agree with what you're saying.
You are trying to do an analysis using addition and subtraction only. You need to use calculus to obtain a correct conclusion. Not, literally but you hear what I am saying.
This is close to the analysis I summarize but it provides the same conclusions.O.k., do you have a link making sense of that statement, one that is not Breitbart?
Using Kalman Filter to Predict Corona Virus Spread
As a beginning, let’s briefly compare the COVID19 to an older fatal virus-Ebola. Ebola is not a new disease (first cases were identified in 1976) but in 2014 and 2018 it erupted again until these days.
* The fatality rate of EBOV is much higher and may reach a 75% death case comparing to ~2.7% death of COVID19. It must be noted that COVID19 is an ongoing disease so the fatality rate is not final and will most likely increase.
https://www.who.int/docs/default-so...0306-sitrep-46-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=96b04adf_2
Mortality for COVID-19 appears higher than for influenza, especially seasonal influenza. While the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower. For seasonal influenza, mortality is usually well below 0.1%. However, mortality is to a large extent determined by access to and quality of health care.
Estimating Risk for Death from 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease, China, January–February 2020
In conclusion, our estimates of the risk for death from COVID-19 in China as of February 11, 2020, were as high as 12% in the epicenter of the epidemic and as low as ≈1% in the less severely affected areas in China. Because the risk for death from COVID-19 is probably associated with a breakdown of the healthcare system in the absence of pharmaceutical interventions (i.e., vaccination and antiviral drugs), enhanced public health interventions (including social distancing measures, quarantine, enhanced infection control in healthcare settings, and movement restrictions), as well as enhanced hygienic measures in the general population and an increase in healthcare system capacity, should be implemented to rapidly contain the epidemic.
In South Korea it was 0.7% with far more tests done........
The CDC article shows their testing methods..........and how they get the rate....
The NUMBERS from different centers and studies ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE.........That is my point.