RE:RE:Weekend approaches Among people who catch seasonal flus, about 0.1 to 0.2 percent die from the illness, though the number varies widely from year to year, depending on the strain of the virus and other factors. It has been apparent since January that the new virus had a significantly higher fatality rate — though lower than those of other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS.
“Globally, about 3.4 percent of reported Covid-19 cases have died,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.’s director general, said on Tuesday at a news conference in Geneva.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/coronavirus-news.html
deet wrote: BronxBull wrote: Will be interesting to see how many more CoVid cases develop over the weekend. Monday selling continues i would suspect.
I'm sure you'll be hearing about it all weekend and first thing Monday morning as soon as you turn on the radio. That's all we ever hear these days. Meanwhile, in the USA alone, the common flu kills at least 12,000 (mostly elderly) people every year. And yet, those unreported deaths have had no impact whatseover on the global economy.
"The CDC predicts that at least 12,000 Americans will die from the flu in any given year. As many as 61,000 people died in the 2017-2018 flu season, and 45 million were infected."
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-02-07/theres-a-virus-spreading-in-us-thats-killed-10-000-the-flu