Arkpony wrote:I read this morning that some of the experts on these virus' said there are probably a great many walking around infected who will never get sick or of course, be hospitalized and die. There fore the percent of infected people who die is far less than what is reported.
Yes, that is why they give a large range of what the mortality rate is - anywhere from 3.5% to 5% (Italy) all the way down to at or a little below 1%.
That said, at minimum the mortality rate is still 10x greater than the flu (0.1%). Remember, a lot of people who get a mild case of the flu also don't go to the doctor to get tested because it is mild or someone else in the house got it and they know what they have. So when you make the exceptions for Corona it is important to recognize that those same exceptions are true for the flu.
And again, the hospitalization rate for this is way higher than the flu.
The people who want to compare this to a flu are the media and politicians. Don't listen to them.