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Originally Posted by AndrewM
People that die from the flu is like 0.1%, chance to die from SARS was around 10%. The only reason the flu kills more people is it affects millions of people yearly. Hopefully this doesn't transfer wildly or it could be quite deadly. Time will tell in the next couple months. So far 6/300 have died or 2% of those infected.
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Sure seems to be spreading easily so far with cases popping up in several geographic areas already.
The flu of 1968 had a mortality of .5% yet still killed an estimated 1 million. The 1956 flu killed 2 million, and the 1918 flu killed a whopping 20-50 million. Hopefully it's like Dean says and doesn't amount to much death wise. The possibility certainly exists for it to turn into a real nightmare however.
Economically it has a fairly strong probability of causing significant damage and contribute to a real global slowdown.
https://www.mphonline.org/worst-pandemics-in-history/