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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (5107)	4/4/2020 4:35:58 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Recommended By philv Respond to of 13789

Why I Stopped Being Afraid and Started Laughing at Covid-19 Consider 100 people who have been infected with Covid-19. Ten of them have it so severely that they go into hospital, where they test positive for Covid-19. The other 90 are not tested at all. One of the hospital patients then dies from the virus. The other 99 people survive. That would give a case fatality rate of one in 10, or 10%. But the infection fatality rate would be just one in 100, or 1%. So if some countries only test patients ill enough to go to hospital – and don’t test the less-ill (or even asymptomatic) Covid-19 patients who don’t get to hospital (which is what the UK is currently doing) – the death rate can appear higher than in countries where testing is widespread (such as Germany or South Korea). bbc.com