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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: Dr. Voodoo who wrote (4898)3/23/2020 8:01:29 AM
From: elmatador   of 13800
 
We had a perfect petri-dish coronavirus disease (COVID-19) experiment with the cruise ship “Diamond Princess”.


That’s the cruise ship that ended up in quarantine for a number of weeks after a number of people tested positive for the coronavirus. I got to wondering what the outcome of the experiment was.
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As you might imagine, before they knew it was a problem, the epidemic raged on the ship, with infected crew members cooking and cleaning for the guests, people all eating together, close living quarters, lots of social interaction, and a generally older population. Seems like a perfect situation for an overwhelming majority of the passengers to become infected.

And despite that, some 83% (82.7% – 83.9%) of the passengers never got the disease at all … why?



Figure 1. Number of passengers by age group on the Diamond Princess (solid) and expected number of passengers given current US population percentages (hatched)




Next, here’s the breakdown of how many people didn’t get the virus, by age group:



Figure 2. Percentage of unaffected passengers on the Diamond Princess. “Whiskers” on the plot show the uncertainty of each percentage.




Diamond Princess Mysteries

Willis Eschenbach / 6 days ago

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/16/diamond-princess-mysteries/
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