03-03-2020, 01:25 PM
** 03-Mar-2020 World View: WHO changes coronavirus (Covid-19) fatality rate to 3.4%
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization
(WHO), shocked reporters a couple of hours ago by saying that about
3.4% of confirmed coronavirus cases have died. This is contrasted
to the 0.1% death rate of the ordinary seasonal flu.
At the beginning of this crisis, I heard numbers like 2.1%. Then,
after a couple of weeks, the WHO announced that it was actually about
1%.
So today's announcement by Tedros is actually quite shocking. If
correct, it will mean additional tens of millions of deaths from
Covid-19 in the next year.
Other than that, the news is that coronavirus continues to spread, and
shows no signs of stopping. Financial markets continue to be in a
chaotic near-panic state.
---- Source:
-- Coronavirus more deadly than flu but containable: WHO's Tedros
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coron...SKBN20Q2G6
(Reuters, 3-Mar-2020)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization
(WHO), shocked reporters a couple of hours ago by saying that about
3.4% of confirmed coronavirus cases have died. This is contrasted
to the 0.1% death rate of the ordinary seasonal flu.
At the beginning of this crisis, I heard numbers like 2.1%. Then,
after a couple of weeks, the WHO announced that it was actually about
1%.
So today's announcement by Tedros is actually quite shocking. If
correct, it will mean additional tens of millions of deaths from
Covid-19 in the next year.
Other than that, the news is that coronavirus continues to spread, and
shows no signs of stopping. Financial markets continue to be in a
chaotic near-panic state.
---- Source:
-- Coronavirus more deadly than flu but containable: WHO's Tedros
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coron...SKBN20Q2G6
(Reuters, 3-Mar-2020)
