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2020-01-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Deaths rise to #132 in #China #outbreak as foreigners leave

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 170 as of 9pm est 29 Jan

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Posted by lord garth 2020-01-30 06:20|| 2020-01-30 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Something like a 1% mortality rate? Bad enough but not a population-collapsing level. And I expect a lot of those 1% were people with other health issues. It is expected to be a pathogen that mutates easily, so who can tell where it goes.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-01-30 10:20|| 2020-01-30 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I think more people have died watching Avatar; what am I missing?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-30 14:57|| 2020-01-30 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 You don't calculate mortality as dead/infected but as dead/(dead + recovered) - people in whom the disease haven't run it's course don't count.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-30 15:49|| 2020-01-30 15:49|| Front Page Top

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