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Old 01-21-2020, 07:04 PM
AndrewM AndrewM is offline
 
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Originally Posted by bdub View Post
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/
Common denominator so far seems to be everyone visited the same city. Trouble is symptoms don’t show up and they can be contagious. Hopefully it is no big deal but people are dying which would say otherwise. Spreading quickly so far and high mortality rate. Hopefully it is just because they are watching for it rather than seeing more people infected.
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