Kinda wish we got more information on people who dies from the virus. Are they usually older people or is it people who don't get treatment or are everyone at risk here?

Change of getting sick is different from chances of dying. 

It was somebody else that was panicking, I'm relatively healthy. I'm aware that even if I get sick my chances of dying are very low.

You should try teach them how to order groceries online and ship to them.  I know their age might make that impossible but it sounds like if they could get groceries delivered to their house that would be beneficial to them.

I can do that for them since this isn't dependent of where I live but it's still a bad situation for older people, that's for sure

Edit: was already posted

Where did I say that was the death rate for the illness, that line was right under the chance (so far) of catching the illness (in Wuhan) and in the same post and earlier I said. People are very worried when they read 6% chance to die and talks of widespread pandemic.

Deaths / Total detected cases is currently 3.4% and 6.0% of closed cases.

The problem with all the speculations on death rate are that it entirely depends on how many undetected cases are floating around, who gets it and how well prepared hospitals are with beds and respirators. In China they even used Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to keep people alive https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5239989/

Outside Wuhan the WHO found the death rate for the disease to be about 1%, with well prepared advanced hospital care. It will be a lot higher when advanced healthcare is not available or overburdened, hence the need to slow it down.


Today looks like the day active cases are starting to grow again (Newly infected - Recovered was going down since they started getting it under control in China, but it's now exploding in the rest of the world mostly from air travel connections) Governments are so slow to respond with only some countries getting a negative travel advisory. The problem is, as soon as its detected somewhere, it already had an avg of 9 days to develop and likely infect close contacts.

Read this, it's the best and most honest information I've found so far
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-china

The stats are from 4 weeks ago but plenty big sample




Smokers are more at risk, the elderly, people with diabetes, chronic lung disease, people with heart conditions and/or hypertension and severe obese people. However it's still possible for young healthy people to suddenly deteriorate, although the chance is low.

13 confirmed cases in my city now. Can't wait for them to rise, so I can work the rest of the month from home.

Just tell the boss you're developing a bit of a cough or something, and you can probably work from home starting today.