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  • MondoMorphic-1

    The Stanford study, led by Assistant Professor Eran Bendavid, concluded that the mortality rate in Santa Clara County is between 0.12% and 0.2%.

    ...so a mortality comparable to that of the flu.

    https://paloaltoonline.com/news/…

    • lol...it‘s a weird planet atm...nyt just compared mortality by country with former years and there‘s lots of more death ppl than usual.uan
    • Because it is flu season.monospaced
    • while i think this may not be too far off the truth that stanford study is a load of shitekingsteven
    • i'd take a punt at the UK sitting between 20% -> 50% immunity right now. we need large scale randomised serology testingkingsteven
    • i saw that nyt article, comparing daily peaks with averaged numbers over previous years :-| 2015 was the last bad flu season and 2020 is under.kingsteven
    • QUOTE: [this] suggests that "we are very early in the epidemic and many more people in Los Angeles County could potentially be infected."
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    • "And as the number of infections arise, so will the number of deaths, the number of hospitalizations and the number of ICU admissions," Sood said.
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    • Is it so hard to READ the entire article before misinterpreting it and sharing your bonehead opinion?
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    • ^ the difference being that this has a higher R0, 10% get the flu every year, without a vaccine 60-80% need to get covid for herd immunitykingsteven

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