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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-it-is-not-such-a-bad-time-to-be-living-alone-in-someone's-basement dept.

[Editor's note: We had been gathering together COVID-19 stories for eventual release as a round-up story. I lack time at the moment to personally gather all those together with this most recent submission. We will run the next round-up in the next few days. But given the significance of this submission, I wished not to delay it from being immediately released to the community. --martyb]

World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic:

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on Wednesday as the new coronavirus, which was unknown to world health officials just three months ago, has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

“In the past two weeks the number of cases outside China has increased thirteenfold and the number of affected countries has tripled,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. “In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries to climb even higher.”

Tedros said several countries have demonstrated the ability to suppress and control the outbreak, but he scolded other world leaders for failing to act quickly enough or drastically enough to contain the spread.

“We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” he said, just before declaring the pandemic. “We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.”

[Ed. addition follows.]

Also at Ars Technica and cnet.

For those who might not be aware of the distinction, Wikipedia helpfully provides these summaries:

An epidemic (what we have had up to now with COVID-19):

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less.

[...]An epidemic may be restricted to one location; however, if it spreads to other countries or continents and affects a substantial number of people, it may be termed a pandemic.[1] The declaration of an epidemic usually requires a good understanding of a baseline rate of incidence; epidemics for certain diseases, such as influenza, are defined as reaching some defined increase in incidence above this baseline.[2] A few cases of a very rare disease may be classified as an epidemic, while many cases of a common disease (such as the common cold) would not.

By comparison, a pandemic (which has just now been announced for COVID-19):

A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75–200 million people in the 14th century. The current pandemics are HIV/AIDS and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).[1][2] Other recent pandemics are the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu), and the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1).


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:38PM (55 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:38PM (#969805)

    Like South Korea? Where they used a quick rest and got slammed by the WHO for having so many infections?
    Goddamn stupid hype. It's a cold virus, spreading like wildfire is what it does. Most people get over it. It's not even the flu.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:51PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:51PM (#969813) Journal

    I'm so glad to have your advice that is contrary to what all the experts are saying.

    It's definitely not necessary to take any sensible precautions. What do those silly experts know. We don't need no testing kits.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:40AM (#969992)

      Fake News...Cough...Cough

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:52PM (11 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:52PM (#969814) Journal

    We could only dream to have as competent response as South Korea's has been.

    South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US. [businessinsider.com]

    The US and South Korea announced their first cases of the coronavirus on the same day: January 20. More than six weeks later, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested around 1,500 people for the virus. South Korea, meanwhile, has tested about 140,000.

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:52PM (3 children)

      by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:52PM (#969861)

      Honestly it might be a difference in book keeping: Depending on the country and the condition, complications might be written down as the cause of death rather than the original disease / trauma. For instance, most people dying from the flu are counted as lung infections or some other complication rather than the flu. It's why you have some sources quoting 0.1% mortality for the flu and others quoting as much as 4%. Similarly, COVID-19 rarely kills directly and deaths are almost always the result of complications.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:20PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:20PM (#969886)

        Or it might be that they responded VERY FUCKING AGGRESSIVELY AND TESTED EVERYONE THAT THEY COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON. Pretty much the exact opposite of what the USA did, eg. send vector untrained staff in to socialize with people who were supposed to be under quarantine and then send them back home on commercial flights. It is a testament to the medical profession that no doctor has strangled $45 in a meeting.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:54AM

          by Thexalon (636) on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:54AM (#970048)

          It is a testament to the medical profession that no doctor has strangled $45 in a meeting.

          They might not need to - there's good reason to think he's infected.

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          The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:45AM (#969954)

        This isn't a bookkeeping issue. Even having a more complete count of who is infected probably doesn't quite explain the low death rate. South Korea's approach is effective and is much better than what we've seen in China and Italy, let alone the United States. The economic impact is also far less because massive quarantines aren't needed. If infected people are tested early, it reduces the opportunity for them to spread the virus. That will reduce the burden on hospitals, making it much easier to treat those who are seriously ill. It may also allow for supportive treatment to begin earlier, like managing the fever and inflammation. In short, the frequent and early testing may directly contribute to better outcomes.

        South Korea is also using a considerable amount of big brother surveillance to try to track who may have come in contact with an infected person. While the surveillance is a bit controversial, we shouldn't pretend that such surveillance isn't present in the United States. Maybe we should put the NSA/other law enforcement surveillance to good use for once and alert people who may be infected to go get tested. Of course, that would reveal the extent of the surveillance, though you'd have to be incredibly naive to think such capabilities don't already exist. And it would require enough test kits, which is a much bigger problem. If we were going to refuse the WHO test kits, we still had a month to prepare our own tests... and utterly and abysmally failed.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:58PM (4 children)

      by Freeman (732) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:58PM (#969868) Journal

      Well, we did have the whole bunch of people come over from that cruise ship. Maybe, South Korea was a bit more proactive/paranoid when it came to dealing with likely and/or known infected citizens?

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:14PM (1 child)

      by legont (4179) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:14PM (#969877)

      Yes, they are good. It did help that they had a very narrow vector through that jesus sect and it is yet to be seen they really contained the bug, but they sure reacted well.

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      "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:33PM (#969897)

        Don't fuck with korean jesus.

        He busy, with korean shit.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:54PM (30 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:54PM (#969818) Journal

    If by most, you mean, possibly up to 15% of certain demographics dying from said disease, then sure. Most people get over it. Even, if 49.99% of people that contracted the virus died. Then, most people would have survived it.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:59PM (29 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:59PM (#969823) Journal

      Let's call it a low-ball 50% of people in the US get it.
      And let's use South Korea's death rate that I cited above: 0.6%

      There are 327 million people in the US

      327,000,000 * 0.5 * 0.06 = 9,810,000 dead people!

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:01PM (27 children)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:01PM (#969825) Journal

        0.006 lol!

        about a million dead folks...

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:05PM (26 children)

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:05PM (#969827) Journal

          It's more than a million dead folks.

          It's the fear and panic that comes with it as it happens. The businesses that don't survive. (corporations are people too!) People who lose their jobs. People who lose their homes.

          There is much more suffering than just the cold numbers of the loss of life.

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          People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
          • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:09PM (25 children)

            by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:09PM (#969831) Journal

            A raise I was supposed to get in April has been postponed until further notice.

            At my wife's work, a charter contract that was going to earn them $100k just got cancelled.

            This is definitely going to kick us square in the economy. Which was only hanging on because of massive deficit spending anyway...

            • (Score: 5, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:21PM (14 children)

              by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:21PM (#969839) Journal

              No matter how badly things get for most people, we must not tax the wealthiest 3 men in the country who own more than the bottom 50 % put together.

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              People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
              • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:57PM (7 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:57PM (#969867)

                Though your sentiment is praise worthy, your it is misdirected. We need corporate regulation more than anything else. Specifically, corporations who do business internationally. These are the entities that are stealing the wealth of real prople and causing societal unrest. If these corporations have so much extra profit that buying legislation can be rolled into the cost of doing business then they are pretty obviously not paying back into.the community, and are in fact provably detrimental to the average person. The super wealthy are just along for the ride and act as convenient lightning rods for degenerative rhetoric. Bust the trusts!

                • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:10PM (6 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:10PM (#969872)

                  Unfortunately, the only way to really combat this at the top level is some kind of global governance, and I don think anybody that loves diversity or growth would like that very much. Money has no real borders, but people do.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:14PM (5 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:14PM (#969875)

                    Bullshit. Countries can use diplomacy to structure economics without destroying cultures.

                    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:16PM (4 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:16PM (#969879)

                      Not while the same people that are making the money are signing the bills

                      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:18PM (3 children)

                        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:18PM (#969882)

                        So what, you want human nature to suddenly not apply? People are going to do what benefits themselves, see all of human history.

                        • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:24PM (2 children)

                          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:24PM (#969887)

                          I think that there are plenty of examples of selflessness scattered throughout history. But to your point, hauling out a trope doesn't absolve people who make decisions from responsibility, even if the types of decisions they made to get to where they are are the ones that are detrimental to society as a whole. There must be better out there for us to implement, or else what's the point? Might as well just nuke it from orbit if that's the case.

                          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:30PM (1 child)

                            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:30PM (#969893)

                            Yeah, checks and balances. Welcome to the eighteenth century

                            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:32PM

                              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:32PM (#969895)

                              Welcome to the circle jerk we call civilization schmucklehead

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:17PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:17PM (#969880)

                No matter how badly things get for most people, we must not tax the wealthiest 30 people in the country who own more than the bottom 50 % put together.

                FTFY.

                Let's be accurate here. [soylentnews.org] It certainly doesn't change the value of your point.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:47AM (3 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:47AM (#970040)

                Bloomberg, Trump and Tom Steyer?

                Democracy, ftw.

                • (Score: 4, Informative) by captain normal on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:31AM (1 child)

                  by captain normal (2205) on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:31AM (#970096)

                  At least Bloomberg and Steyer can put together a coherent sentence.

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                  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday March 12 2020, @11:59AM

                    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday March 12 2020, @11:59AM (#970184) Journal

                    I don't like the coherent sentences Bloomberg puts together. Somehow they all come through as, "Fuck off and die, dirty peons."

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                • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:15PM

                  by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:15PM (#970295) Journal

                  Bloomberg and Steyer have a positive net worth.

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                  People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
              • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:28PM

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:28PM (#970277) Journal
                The wealth argument is stupid. Once again, it ignores future income. That's wealth. It ignores that a completely broke person would still be wealthier than a huge part of society due to debt. I don't know how much for the US, but it's 30% when you consider the whole world.

                Finally, those rich people are trying to be rich while most of the 50% aren't. And they pay plenty of taxes already.

                Guess I'm tired of all this windmill tilting.
            • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:22PM (5 children)

              by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:22PM (#969840) Journal

              Oh, and I'm sorry to hear about the rough times. Hopefully it is not so bad as to destroy your life.

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              People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
              • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:29PM (4 children)

                by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:29PM (#969847) Journal

                I'd rather my work wake the fuck up and allow working from home during this emergency that to get that raise. As of now it looks like I'll be getting neither!

                (We'll be fine though, thanks)

                • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:50PM (3 children)

                  by Freeman (732) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:50PM (#969857) Journal

                  Convenience can definitely be a good incentive. Too bad, you're getting the inconvenience, disregard for health, and no raise options all rolled into one.

                  I'm still hopeful that it will be a lot less problematic than has been observed to this point. Lots more people actually having been infected, with a much lower death rate, similar to the existing flu troubles would be ideal. Assuming, we're stuck with it as a recurring virus. Even, if it's much more deadly for really old people. A much lower overall death rate would make it just another flu or a bad strain of the flu or something.

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                  Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:54PM (2 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:54PM (#969863)

                    Death rates, phooey! I have been reduced to wiping my ass with Presidential tax returns, because of all of the irrational panic buying and hoarding. Most of the harm is going to be self-inflicted, I see. It is kind of like Microsoft Windows, in that regard.

                    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Aegis on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:54PM (1 child)

                      by Aegis (6714) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:54PM (#969908)

                      Getting your hands on the president's tax returns, or toilet paper, would definitely be newsworthy!

                      • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:25AM

                        by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:25AM (#970024) Journal

                        Ebay has listings for alternatives [ebay.com.au]

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                        "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:44PM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:44PM (#969856)

              Isn't that what you've been wishing for? A tanking economy to have a chance at getting president Biden?
              Glad you are materially affected too.

              • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:50PM

                by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:50PM (#969859) Journal

                Trump was eventually going to fail miserably at some disaster. A tanking economy would be the least terrible one he could make worse.

                But don't you worry. I make enough money to profit off the recovery. The Trump voters on the other hand, not so much...

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:56AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:56AM (#969961) Journal

                Rot in hell, you ghoulish little troll.

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              • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:58AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:58AM (#970005)

                Wow, the Schdenfreude when Trumpers have no one else they can possibly blame but the prez. Lul, your dude is a shitty scam artist who knows jack shit about anything but running scams.

                Sorry bub, we liberals do not wish to harm ourselves just to keep "winning." That'd be you trumpettes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:52PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:52PM (#969860)

        0.6% of people feeling sick enough to present at a health care facility.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:03PM (4 children)

    by LaminatorX (14) <laminatorxNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:03PM (#969826)

    Compared to our regular dance with Influenza, this is more contagious in the early symptomatic phase - such that people who don't feel super-sick yet are shedding more live viruses as they go about their business hoping to "shake off this cold," significantly more deadly to the elderly, and less deadly to children (at least there's one bright point).

    Based on the data from China, lot of seniors (and a few others) will die awaiting treatment if it spreads in an area faster than they can be treated with the finite amount of respiratory support hardware in their area. If the pace of new infections can be slowed such that everyone who needs respiratory support at a given time can get it, most of them will recover.

    So yeah, not much worse than the flu to most of us, but easier to spread and more likely to wreck our elders. That's not the Black Death, nor even the Spanish Flu of a century ago (which massacred young children, count all the under-10 graves from a century back the next time you're in an old cemetary _shudder_), but it is worth taking seriously.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:06PM (3 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:06PM (#969829) Journal

      It's also more dangerous than the flu because nobody is immune to any strain of it yet. (other than, potentially, recovered people)

      The real risk, as you note, is it spreading so quickly that it overwhelms out support services. And a lack of immunity will certainly contribute to that. Also, a lack of doing anything to stop it from spreading, here in the US.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:41PM

        by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:41PM (#969851) Journal

        Nah to a small part of your post, about 5% of common colds are caused by coronaviruses. That could imply that a fair number, though maybe not most, people have some level of immunity to similar infectious agents.

        Obviously nowhere near enough to curtail the rapid spread. Nor specific enough to provide what we conventionally call "immunity"

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:41AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:41AM (#970033)

        imagine this being a big thing not because of mortality rate but rather because it's a virus that the human immune system has trouble getting immune to.
        this might be the big news: getting it, being sick, getting over it, walking out the door and being right on straight up reinfected with no immunity to show for. back to bed for you, again.
        or maybe it's a "blow up" to distract or relable the impending global recession (that was looming on the horizon anyways)? or maybe that russian dirty open cycle atom splitting missile engine did work?

        • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:57AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:57AM (#970050)

          this might be the big news: getting it, being sick, getting over it, walking out the door and being right on straight up reinfected with no immunity to show for. back to bed for you, again.

          Except that this is not true, completely false, in error, mendacious, a lie, incorrect, not factual, fake news, and does not comport with reality. You are just jealous because you contracted Troll virus, which is very hard to transmit, unless you engage in mucous membrane intercourse. Ewwwwwwwww!

  • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:35PM (4 children)

    by legont (4179) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:35PM (#969850)

    Italy has death rate of 6+% even by wrong CDC measure.

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    "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)

      by Sulla (5173) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:56PM (#969865) Journal

      Age demographics

      Italy population
      Nearly 60% of the population is aged 40 and over, about 23% of which is over 65

      South Korea
      13% of the population is 65 and older

      United States
      16% of the population is 65 and older

      So for the portions of the population who will primarily be affected, we should see significantly higher death rates in Italy (as a percentage). Of course if we add in those with underlying conditions (obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes) the US could end up with a worse rate than Italy.

      Italy has also been refusing treatment for those older patients with underlying conditions in favor of younger healthier patients to focus resources on those who are more likely to survive. So far the US has taken the opposite approach and directed medical resources to be focused on our older populations (containment within retirement areas, etc) based on the SK numbers showing limited problems for people under 50. The Chinese numbers show that people under 40 have a .2% death rate (2xish the flu) and under 50 as .4ish. The Chinese numbers are tough to rely on because their test had 30-80% with false negative. The same test when used on the first patient in Washington would fluctuate between positive and negative throughout the day. I was unable to find resources on the SK test accuracy.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:23AM (#970113)