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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
And whilst I don't have the exact figures to hand, I believe it to be something like 95% of deaths are not directly attributable to this strain of virus, it's due to complications of pre existing medical conditions.
If that 95% is correct that would lead to a 45 deaths from 40,573 confirmed cases that would give a mortality rate of 0.110% not lmuch different to nfluenza
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Wouldn't it be more accurate to correlate the deaths to the number of confirmed victims when they became ill rather than when they died otherwise you're skewing the figures massively. You've also got to factor in that China might not be admitting how bad it is, I've heard a nasty story about people over 60 not being treated and therefore not being included in the figures