/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11424774
It emphatically has spread faster than SARS. Where do you get the confidence to make such patently untrue assertions?

>The average number of person an infectee can infect is only superior by 1 to the flu
Would love to see a source for that. But, even assuming that it is true, influenza is estimated to effect between 5-15% of the global population annually*. Why are you so dismissive of an infection that, according your own info, is MORE transmissive than the flu, is severe in 20% of cases, and fatal in anywhere between 2 and 6 percent of cases (based on incomplete data of a quickly-changing situation)?

>The death rate so far is also really fucking low
It's like you're being wilfully ignorant of inconvenient information. As I said in >>11424568, a low fatality is not a good thing. In fact, a low fatality rate is characteristic of highly transmissible viruses. It may seem counterintuitive to you, but a low fatality rate can in fact result in higher absolute fatalities, and should not be dismissed.

*https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120824/