[Taxacom] Coronavirus

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Mike,
          But the final death rate for the related coronavirus SARS was about 10% (about 800 deaths out of about 8.000 cases).  And that didn't cause a pandemic.  And the death rate for influenza is only lower because of the sheer number of cases.
                       ----------------Ken
https://khn.org/news/flu-far-deadlier-than-wuhan-virus/
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Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus Lurks Near You | Kaiser Health News - khn.org<https://khn.org/news/flu-far-deadlier-than-wuhan-virus/>
There is a virus that has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600 people. You may even know of it.
khn.org


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HI Ken,

Well, so far not many deaths....but among the detected cases so far, the mortality rate is on the rate of 2-4%, much higher than most influenza strains.   Admittedly, many Chinese cases are surely uncounted, and many of the less severe cases don't present at hospitals.  But there's definitely pandemic possibility here.

Mike D.

Michael L. Draney

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Dear All,

      The news media seems to be overly hyping the threat of the new coronovirus.  However, the threat might not be any more than the related SARS virus (which killed about 800 people worldwide).  Furthermore, the threat of the flu is far greater (well over 8,000 deaths in the U.S. so far this season and probably hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide).  Hysteria like this could needlessly divert resources from detecting something even more deadly (which could cause a real pandemic).

       Quote:  "When we think about the relative danger of this new coronavirus and influenza, there's just no comparison," William Schaffner, a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Kaiser Health News (KHN)<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkhn.org%2Fnews%2Fflu-far-deadlier-than-wuhan-virus%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cdraneym%40uwgb.edu%7Cd16896b3d8804e648cc508d7a2d2cfdf%7C7fc34f9d1f754f96b5b33cdcaab03aea%7C0&sdata=zcvI%2F%2FjkpUCs4KrR%2Ba0X4WSJIxyxJlBe2sGybAO7p68%3D&reserved=0>. "Coronavirus will be a blip on the horizon in comparison."

                                 --------------Ken Kinman



Source of quotes from William Schaffner:    https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fwuhan-coronavirus-lesser-threat-to-americans-than-flu-2020-1&data=01%7C01%7Cdraneym%40uwgb.edu%7Cd16896b3d8804e648cc508d7a2d2cfdf%7C7fc34f9d1f754f96b5b33cdcaab03aea%7C0&sdata=f11FHJerN38KgpKo33e2jmuuMuR71dZUT3nj7oGHIhA%3D&reserved=0

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