CORONAVIRUS: Four more people have died in Washington state;US Total now 6

CORONAVIRUS: Four more people have died in Washington state;US Total now 6

And , how does that compare to any other flu or virus ?
I'm a bettin nearly on par.

originally posted by: Tobd57
This thing is so overblown, giving it attention feeds it.

Its irresponsible to assume its overblown when we knowso little of it, and its in its infancy.

One of the deaths was a man in his 40’s

a reply to: violet


They did an analysis of around 70,000 cases in a Chineses medical journal. Breakdown by age put your chances of death under 1% until you started hitting your 60s, 70s, and 80s. That wasn't zero, but is was less than 1%.

However, if you had certain health conditions like hypertension, diabetes, cardiac disease, chronic lung diseases, etc., you could add some not insignificant percentages to your chances of death no matter your age. These will impact you to.

Between the two, you have your total risk factor. Then you also have the risk of a hyperactive immune response which is always a risk with a novel disease your immune system has never seen and can produce a cytokine storm which can drop an otherwise healthy person very quickly but is also relatively rare.

You cannot look at age by itself. That's why everyone points to underlying medical.

This is why slowing the spread of the disease is important, so that those who get the sickest can receive the best chance of the best medical care without the health system getting overwhelmed.

For almost all the rest of us, 80+%, this is likely to be a relatively mild illness.

The Total deaths in Washington state have been updated to 9

Washington state health officials on Tuesday identified three new coronavirus fatalities, including two patients who passed away on Feb. 26 that weren’t previously linked to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the U.S. to nine.

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