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sethnintendo on 13 February 2020
crissindahouse said:
Pyro as Bill said:

If going to work had a mortality rate of 2%, I would have died ~5 times in the past year.

Going to work hasn't a mortality rate of 2% but getting hit by a car may have such a rate.

It's not as If everyone will get the virus so that you can't assume everyone will be hit by a car.

China has like 250k deadly traffic accidents per year and we have over 1m a year worldwide. As long as this virus won't kill many more you shouldn't be more scared of dying from that than leaving your house to die in a traffic accident.

At least not If you aren't in a chinese area where there are many cases.

They have a bunch of new drivers on road each year.  I saw a news story that so many new drivers that they pull up to fast food drive thru window the wrong way.  Apparently need more arrows.

Well there is a saying about asian drivers but I'll just enter this video into evidence.  Guy runs into a couple cars, scooter and a bus or maybe truck then ends up in a hole filled with water.  It was probably best place for him to go after failing to turn at intersection.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldalpCTXHU



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JRPGfan on 13 February 2020
Chicho said:

The tally is at

60329 confirmed cases 1369 deaths and 5995 recovered

Thats crazy.... the amount of confirmed cases, of infected is riseing rappidly.




Lafiel on 13 February 2020
JRPGfan said:
Chicho said:

The tally is at

60329 confirmed cases 1369 deaths and 5995 recovered

Thats crazy.... the amount of confirmed cases, of infected is riseing rappidly.

as I said earlier they just added the clinically diagnosed cases (over 13k) in Hubei to the tally - these show the symptoms associated with covid-19 (especially the lung dmg), but the virus hasn't been confirmed in them

that's either because of limited ability to analyse samples or because of a high amount of false negatives the currently used test produces (probably a combination of both)

out of the clinically diagnosed patients 135 or ~1% have died at this point



Bofferbrauer2 on 13 February 2020
Lafiel said:
JRPGfan said:

Thats crazy.... the amount of confirmed cases, of infected is riseing rappidly.

as I said earlier they just added the clinically diagnosed cases (over 13k) in Hubei to the tally - these show the symptoms associated with covid-19 (especially the lung dmg), but the virus hasn't been confirmed in them

that's either because of limited ability to analyse samples or because of a high amount of false negatives the currently used test produces (probably a combination of both)

out of the clinically diagnosed patients 135 or ~1% have died at this point

Keep in mind that the drop of cases in early February also stems from the fact that China only reported the numbers from those which not only tested positive, but also showed symptoms of the disease. Anyone who had the virus but either was immune or still incubating didn't make it onto the list anymore. So throughout the last week the number had been underreported anyway and this new tally could actually more realistic as the number of false positives and the non-reported possibly cancel each other out.



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numberwang on 13 February 2020

Is there a single confirmed case of a non ethnic Chinese who died from the virus?



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drkohler on 13 February 2020
numberwang said:

Is there a single confirmed case of a non ethnic Chinese who died from the virus?

An American teacher (teaching English) in Wuhan has just died.



Lafiel on 13 February 2020
drkohler said:
numberwang said:

Is there a single confirmed case of a non ethnic Chinese who died from the virus?

An American teacher (teaching English) in Wuhan has just died.

and a japanese woman (80y) has apparently been diagnosed with the virus post mortem



numberwang on 13 February 2020
Lafiel said:
drkohler said:

An American teacher (teaching English) in Wuhan has just died.

and a japanese woman (80y) has apparently been diagnosed with the virus post mortem

Do we know the ethnicity of the American?

The Japanese woman at 80 could have died from old age.



Lafiel on 13 February 2020
numberwang said:
Lafiel said:

and a japanese woman (80y) has apparently been diagnosed with the virus post mortem

Do we know the ethnicity of the American?

The Japanese woman at 80 could have died from old age.

the fact that she was tested in Japan (had no history of travel) makes it very probable that she was suffering from severe pneumonia



Chicho on 13 February 2020
Lafiel said:

as I said earlier they just added the clinically diagnosed cases (over 13k) in Hubei to the tally - these show the symptoms associated with covid-19 (especially the lung dmg), but the virus hasn't been confirmed in them

that's either because of limited ability to analyse samples or because of a high amount of false negatives the currently used test produces (probably a combination of both)

out of the clinically diagnosed patients 135 or ~1% have died at this point

The reason is because a lung scan is faster than testing for viral RNA. Viral RNA 100% confirms but it takes more time.