latin jazz
Well-Known Member
How can I think anything but? Looking at what is happening in New York it's only worse if you assume that every single case is exactly the number that is being diagnosed. Not a single expert believes that. Most believe that the actual rate of infection is minimum double, with some estimates in factors of 10 greater than actually reported cases. On that scale, even without a vaccine, it's half as deadly as the flu at it's worst, and that's with vaccines for the flu.
So, it might not be as deadly in relative terms (say it only kills 0.29% of infected people). However, it is more deadly in absolute terms as it spreads faster and undetected, ultimately collapsing the health system of a city/country, leading to greater/quicker/geographically concentrated deaths than the flu. The impact it has on a region - psychologically, socially and economically - like northern Italy - is devastating. Two nurses committed suicide yesterday in Italy due to exhaustion/depression (and one testing positive). Truly heartbreaking.
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