haxxiy on 16 March 2020
| S.Peelman said: I do agree that while this is quite contagious, we also shouldn’t act like this is the pneumonic plague. Compared to some other pandemics in history, both fairly recent as well as further away, the current Corona pandemic is still child’s play. That’s not to say we shouldn’t contain this asap. |
Yes. The Spanish Flu outright demolished some countries, specially tropical ones with no immunity to influenza viruses. 22% of the population dead in two months in American Samoa, for instance. And a lot of that, people in their 20s.
Also, we need to take into account, when estimating the need for hospital beds, the 50% - 95% of people getting the disease, but not ever being tested or needing hospital care.
