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The virus is comparatively new and there is way less reliable data about the mortality rate than there are about the flu, but the following seems to reasonable when taken all the various news, including the WHO's own data, into account:
1. The death rate is likely to be lower than the currently reported 3.4%, since this number ignores undetected infected. But lots of things are still unclear.
2. The death rate appears to be nevertheless considerably higher than the one of just a regular flu.
4. The disease is not contained and is likely so spread considerably over the next months. It's not quite as easy to catch as the common cold, but still easy enough not to be careless.
5. The numbers really change daily, if not hourly. What I say here may be completely different tomorrow.
6. Some cases are indeed very mild, with people barely noticing that they have it (symptoms on a level with a cold), while for others -- usually people with pre-existing conditions, weakened immune systems, elderly, an infection can prove fatal or near fatal. Several people are in critical conditions in hospitals.
There have been over 500 reported cases in Germany, roughly half of them in the area where I live. 16 people have recovered.
So far, the virus appears to be in clustered areas (I am in one of them), and they are trying to contain it, but it is still likely to spread.
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800 people die annually from strangling themselves with their bed sheets while asleep in the U.S.
Around 300 people die each year in the U.S.A. from falling off ladders.
About 5,000 Americans die from choking on food each year.
About 900 Americans die each year from diseases associated with or related to constipation.
30 to 50 people die from dog attacks in the U.S. each year.
About 800 to 900 people die each year in the U.S. from falling out of bed. and that number keeps going up about a hundred each year!
Each years about 12,000 Americans will die from the flu.
Total number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus so far: 12.
Assuming you don't strangle yourself while asleep with your bed sheets, or fall out of bed dying, and don't die from a dog attack while jogging, you're more likely to die from the flu each year.
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That's how people die from the flu, spreading it. It's not like you go somewhere and ask to be injected with it.
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And people who contracted it and got better, caught it again.
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The virus doesn't only affect old people with pre-existing conditions.
That is true... in fact, neither does indeed the flu. However, so far you seem more likely to die from it if you are already weakened otherwise.
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Its a worry edw. Ive got a few pals who have had cancer treatment and because of low immune system are particularly vunerable to catching any colds n flu, and are restricting trips to central london to stay safer, even for treatment check ups.
As time goes on, hopefully the accuracy of its severity will become clearer, and with luck we hope it will level off and normality will resume.
Apart from plunging shares and indexes that affect pensions and suchlike, the biggest thing affecting us at the moment is mischievious and dense facebook sheep creating panic buying. 1 moron says "have you heard a shop in australia has run out of toilet roll" and this gets changed to australia has run out of bog roll. Which in turn gets changed to "ooh theres a world shortage of bog roll" ...which leads to... later that night, toilet roll shelves completely cleared in my local supermarket.
And so a panic is created where there is no shortage, then there is a shortage because people buy up for fear of missing out!!
For starters it seems sensible for supermarkets to restrict every customer to one of any item. Or put a sign up saying there is no shortage, no need to stockpile.
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