Microsoft and EPIC canceling their GDC attendance due to Corona

[The_Liquid_Laser]

ironmanDX said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

1) You are right that it isn't nearly as bad as the black plague or can it get anything close to that.

2) Coronavirus is actually much more deadly that the flu though.

It's somewhere in between the flu and the black plague.  There is a lot of room in between those things.

The flu is worse than Corona Virus. Well, in terms of sheer number of deaths per year, anyway.

https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html

I am talking in terms of percentages.  Going by the article you linked the death rate of the coronavirus is 2.67% while the death rate of the flu is 0.054%.  The coronavirus is about 50 times deadlier in terms of percentages.

In terms of raw numbers we don't know how bad it is going to get yet.  CDC is saying that it is likely to turn into a pandemic.