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Old 04-20-2020, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by theruizs View Post
This is meaningless. What is the infection rate and what is the death rate of those infected? So, how many get infected per 100K and then what percentage of those die. You could also look at the infection rate among health care workers, but I am not sure that’s really available.
The infection rate doesn't matter and nobody knows. Deaths matter. Do you obsess over the number of people who get infected every year with the flu? 99.9% of them get well and survive.

The number of covid 19 infected is unknown and the only way we'll know for sure is when everyone gets an active virus test and/or antibody test. That's probably not going to happen soon. When you have those numbers let us know.