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Lafiel said:
SvennoJ said:
That's not good, my wife has chronic health conditions and is just getting over a double pneumonia, she was down to 20% lung function not long ago. Now I am getting a little worried.

yea she is at high risk from this virus, so (I'm sure you already know this - just to emphasize the importance) make sure to always wash your hands when going out and coming back and avoid touching your face (especially eyes, nose and mouth) while you are out to minimize the chance to get infected and pass it on to her

We have kids (8 and 10) that go to school. If it spreads it will be inevitable :( Maybe we get lucky and it comes through during Summer holidays :/ Hopefully it can simply be contained, or only a mild form might spread.

The low rate of serious cases on the Diamond Princess gives hope, 35 serious out of 691 infected out of 3700 people can mean it's not as dangerous as it looks from the other stats, but that would also mean that there are already way more infected cases that have not been identified. When you get sick it seems to last a long time though, only 10 recovered so far, 4 dead, 642 still sick but not serious. From the Diamond princess' numbers you have a 5% chance of getting seriously ill when you catch the disease. or 2 to 3.5% chance if you take that 40 to 70% projection into account. 1 in 50 is still pretty shitty odds, still 150 million seriously ill people.

I'm keeping a watch on that worldinfo site.