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Is it true that the coronavirus is 50 percent more deadly then the spanish flu from 100 years ago and 100 times more deadly then the flu?
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Doubt it: Until we have more data to look at it is hard to know. The gloom & doom media certainly want to say such things.However, preliminary data reported this week from Stanford & USC suggests as many as 50 times more patients in those areas had the disease than were previously known.If verified this would drop the case fatality rate to below 0.5%.
Answered 4/23/2020
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Don't think so: I was not able to find any number on actual fatality rates with Spanish Flu. The death rate estimates have varied with COVID 19. But lets say - that there was a 1% death rate -then it would be about ten times more deadly than influenza. Infection / mortality rates estimates have averaged from 1.4 to 5%. But this is based on "reported" data - which may not be accurate.
Answered 5/28/2020
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