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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by LessinSF
I butchered my post. I meant to refer to the spate of youngish, healthy doctors and nurses exposed to it who have died.
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Kinda makes you wonder if repeated exposure is worse, and makes you worry if you're married to an ICU nurse.
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There are now COVID-19 cases around the world, and epidemiological data from tens of thousands of cases. Here’s what we know: no doubt to the relief of parents everywhere, this disease is mild to nonexistent in children. There are almost no pediatric deaths and very few kids even seem to fall sick (though children may still be having clinically barely detectable cases, thus infecting others).
On the other hand, for the elderly or for people who have other diseases or comorbidities, it’s very serious, with death rates reaching up to 15 percent. It’s also a great threat to health workers who handle people with the virus every day, with thousands of cases already. Overall, it appears to have a case fatality rate around 2 percent, which is certainly very serious: seasonal flu, a serious threat in and of itself, has a case fatality rate around 0.1 percent in the United States, so this coronavirus is about 20 times as deadly (though again, this number may get much better or worse depending on the kind of care we can provide).
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...trike-the-u-s/
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 02-29-2020 at 02:27 AM..
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