How does COVID-19 compare to other recent viruses?

Experts say Wuhan is milder than other illnesses in the COVID-19 family, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (mers). But it is still deadly dangerous. COVID-19 has an estimated mortality rate of 3.4% but it could be a lot lower than that as milder cases of infection are not likely tested.

The main problem with fighting COVID-19 is its infection rate which is estimated to be higher than the other recent viruses. COVID-19 has two or three times the transmission rate compared to the flu and the case fatality rate for COVID-19 is around 30 times higher than the flu. Here’s how it compares to other more serious viruses:

Infection rates

COVID-19 has the highest infection rate, however it could also be much lower due to milder cases of COVID-19 infection going unreported. This stat will become more accurate over time. The graph shows that it is similar to sars.

Here is the mortality rate of recent viruses

Look at Mers, I never realised how deadly that was.

Imagine if the first reported cases in China were not suppressed by the regime. It could have been contained like mers.

Mortality stats by age for Covid-19

Like all initial stats, as time progresses we will get more accurate data on COVID-19 which could change what is currently being reported. For this reason, I also didn’t bother quoting the sources for the data.

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May 9, 2020 at 7:36 pm#863814
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Three new cases.
May 9, 2020 at 7:36 pm#863815
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2 new cases.
May 11, 2020 at 4:23 pm#863852
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) essentially ruined America’s economy in just two months with their handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
“We know that patient zero in China was about mid-November. It was in Wuhan. We know that ground zero had the P-4 weapons lab, where the virus likely came from. For the next two months, we know that China hid the virus from the world behind the shield of the World Health Organization,” Navarro said. “And, as they did that, they sent gleaming passenger jets from China, not into the rest of China from Wuhan, but to places like New York and Milan, seeding the world with what would become a pandemic.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-trade-adviser-the-chinese-communist-party-crashed-americas-economy-in-60-days?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
May 11, 2020 at 10:34 pm#863856
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Shutting borders was racist because Political Correctness. Trump did it – racist. But then Jacinda had to be racist or die from the virus so she was forced to choose racism. This is the reason for the delay.
May 12, 2020 at 5:57 pm#863870
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Two more new cases
May 12, 2020 at 5:58 pm#863871
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Three new cases. When will this end.
May 12, 2020 at 5:58 pm#863872
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Back to zero cases.
May 14, 2020 at 4:24 pm#863914
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Another day of zero new cases.
May 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm#863915
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A hat-trick of zero new cases. Very encouraging.
May 15, 2020 at 1:49 pm#863938
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After three days of no new cases, we are back to one new case.
May 18, 2020 at 12:15 am#863987
Miia
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You just watch it go back up. I give it four weeks. Everyone here is “partying like it’s 1999”!?
May 18, 2020 at 1:41 am#863988
GeneBalthrop
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T8…..I to believe it was here probably by Nov or Dec also. It has definitely hurt our economy thats for sure. But it also has taken a toll on our already large national debt, and the democratic party wants to give away another three trillion, to add to our 20 some odd trillion debt we already have. This could be just the beginning of not only us but the whole worlds economic crash. That will take place as God brings down the great BABYLOIAN SYSTEM OF RULE IN THIS WORLD. as Rev 18, shows.
Peace and love to you and yours. ………gene

May 18, 2020 at 1:57 am#863989
Miia
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Gene,
Yep, bring it down cause I am tired of it.
May 18, 2020 at 9:05 am#863994
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I think you will find that the poverty that an economic crash will cause will be way more intolerable. And China could start invading lands taking advantage of that situation.
May 18, 2020 at 9:09 am#863995
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A senator recently said he thinks China let the virus out because if they didn’t, then they would have fallen behind the rest of the world.
This way we all fall and they don’t become disadvantaged in comparison. Further, because of their dictatorial powers, they might come out of this thing stronger than America and Europe.
May 19, 2020 at 2:45 am#864003
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T8, and Miia….Thing is, it’s not just the cov19, but the great national debts that nearly all nations have, it’s completely out of control in so many nations including ours . The US has over 22 trillion bebt, that does not include nearly 120 trillion of personal debts of people in our country. We have become vertual slaves to those debts. Things are economically very bad all over the world also, a calaps is emanate, no economy can sustain soundness by keep going further and further into debt as we and other countries also are doing.
I believe the kingdom of God and the return of Jesus our lord, may be a lot closer then people think. We are in a prime position for the total claps of this BABLONIAN WORLD SYSTEM OF RULE.
Peace and love to you and yours. ……..gene

May 19, 2020 at 2:58 pm#864033
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It seems New Zealand has beaten Covid-19. No new cases for a few days now. The odd case might pop up, but they are always from known clusters. It is possible that we may never see another case here.
May 19, 2020 at 2:59 pm#864034
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Gene, if all countries are in debt, by whom are they in debt too? Who is the debt collector?
May 26, 2020 at 2:36 pm#864267
Ed J
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Coronavirus may have been a ‘cell-culture experiment’ gone wrong
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6158843835001
May 26, 2020 at 2:57 pm#864268
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Thanks Ed J, I will take a look now.
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