Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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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.