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Will Coronavirus get as big as swine flu?

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TickTockTickTockT · 15/03/2020 23:25

I’ve just been looking online at other pandemics swine flu killed over 200,00 people. Do we think Coronavirus will do the same?

Personally I’m not worried for myself I’m relatively young, 29. No health conditions but I’m concerned for the vulnerable people.

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Quartz2208 · 17/03/2020 07:29

I don’t think worldometers stats are as good as they were. Early on China tested everyone and then everyone until they recovered. There is no way Europe are doing that so the only fairly reliable (because it doesn’t take into account deaths due to health service issues) is the number of deaths
One has to assume the Chinese model is fairly accurate (although even they must have missed some mild cases) and assume that worldometers is going to potentially look very bad as people no longer are officially recovered (but are fine)

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