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China's coronavirus has 'the same death rate as the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50m people'

Yahoo Style UK ^ | January 22, 2020 | Alexandra Thompson

Chinese officials have confirmed 440 cases of the new coronavirus strain - 2019-nCoV - so far, with 17 deaths. Based on existing data, it is said to have a 2% death rate. This means that for every 50 people who catch the infection, one will statistically die. To put this into context, around one in every 1,000 who develop flu die, giving it a death rate of 0.1%. “This [2019-nCoV’s death rate] could be 2%, similar to Spanish flu,” Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said. Professor Peter Horby, from the University of Oxford, pointed out fatality estimations are...
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