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New China coronavirus data buttress fears about high fatality rate – STAT

By Thomas A. Smith

So I know everybody s been out there saying, Whoa, this thing is spreading everywhere and we just can t see it, tip of the iceberg. But the data that we do have don t support that, Aylward said during a briefing for journalists at WHO s Geneva headquarters.

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Getting a handle on how many people have actually been infected is crucial to assessing how dangerous this virus is. During the early days of an explosive outbreak with a new pathogen, it is hugely challenging to look beyond the people streaming into hospitals for care to see whether there are many more at home with a mild cold or manageable flu-like illness.

If large numbers of mild or virtually symptom-free cases are evading detection, that would suggest that estimates of the proportion of people who might end up in ICUs or might die during a Covid-19 epidemic would be lower than what has been seen to date in China.

via www.statnews.com

I’ve seen this guy on youtube and he strikes me as a commie shill, but who knows. This would be bad if true. I would guess there are lots and lots of undetected virus infectees.