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https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145257-public-anger-grows-over-coronavirus-in%C2%A0thailand-with-eight-cases-of-the-illness/?utm_source=newsletter-20200127-0618&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news
4 hours ago, Barefoot said:
Some people are dividing the number of deaths by the total number of infections and calling the result the "death rate." Then, because the resultant number is low single digits, they think they will live even if they get the infection. Maybe, but that method is dead wrong and it gives the wrong impression about a potentially deadly infection.
Someday when this is all over, it is fair to divide deaths by infections and call it a death rate, but not during the early stages of an epidemic because deaths lag several weeks behind the date they were first infected. For the vast majority of the 2800 people who have been infected, most quite recently, nobody knows yet how many of them will live or die.
The only sensible thing at this point is to look at people in which the infection has completely run its course. The infection runs its course in one of two ways. Either you die, or you recover, meaning the virus is gone. The last numbers I saw from yesterday were sobering: there were 56 deaths and 90 recoveries. That's 38%. For everyone else infected, it is yet to be determined if they will live or die.
The new death numbers came out as being 80 today but I have not seen the updated recovery numbers. But this is something to watch.
The press and some governments are pushing the low death rate numbers -- which are not even correct -- that cause people to lower their guard and say "even if I catch it, I will probably live." That is far from assured. This thing is growing 40% per day. Two more weeks at that rate and we have 275,000. The real death rate figures are somewhere between 3% and 38% and nobody really knows how it will all shake out.
But this is certainly not "the flu."