Corona Virus Hard Facts

originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: BPilgrim

Washing your hands 5 times a day cuts your chance of infection by 45%. Try not to touch your eyes, nose, mouth, or any other area with mucous membranes.

Other than that, don’t go licking handrails in Chinatown.

Wow....common sense! From you??? Did I wake up in Bizzaro world???

Death rate still hovering at 3.4% that's been steady for weeks recovery rate is going up 52.7

If Hubei approximately (8 million people) was hit 70% infection there would be 190400 deaths in Hubei ALONE at 3.4%. Just do not see infection rates that high there or anywhere else in China. It's bad maybe even Swine flu bad but those numbers aren't achievable at the established rates and percentages.

During a press briefing Monday, WHO officials said they don't know how COVID-19 behaves, saying it's not like influenza. They added that while much is known about the seasonal flu, such as how it's transmitted and what treatments work to suppress the disease, that same information is still in question when it comes to the coronavirus.

"This is a unique virus, with unique features. This virus is not influenza," Tedros said Monday. "We are in uncharted territory."

WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought

There are some cold hard facts.

Should we still be more worried about the flu?