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Originally Posted by z06psi
If more people are susceptible and no one, I mean no one can predict how an individual's immune system is going to react then there is a huge unknown.
Fear of the unknown but there is a case and proof now to be fearful.
You might get it and be fine. I might get it and be dead.
The flu is fairly predictable. 99% are cases of old and compromised that die from it.
This has not been the same.
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Yeah, I get that, however:
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Originally Posted by Steve_R
That doesn't answer my question about why the mortality rate from this virus should be calculated different from other viruses.  |
Why for this specific virus is the mortality rate being calculated using only confirmed cases when an estimated number of cases is used for the same calculation for all others? That has nothing to do with how it affects people.