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Old 12-08-2021, 17:02   #6948
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jonbxx View Post
Infectious diseases are relatively cheap and easy to prevent, unlike lifestyle and aging diseases such as cancer and heart disease. The odd jab here and there and simple hygiene measures are all that is needed in general.

If you think a 2% case fatality rate is low, that is about the same as polio, cholera and measles, twice that of whooping cough, lassa fever and cutaneous anthrax and ten to twenty times that of normal influenza, malaria and chickenpox
Useful insights. What stands out to me there is:

ten to twenty times that of normal influenza
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