Originally Posted by Baradium

The current mortality rate in the US, with a small known number of patients, is 7% not .7%, this is a substantial difference. And this assumes that 100% of sick patients will recover of those currently known. Medical professionals ARE taking this very seriously and are just not talking about probable deaths. I'm involved in EMS and WE are taking it incredibly seriously.

Feel free to re-run your numbers, but pay attention to those decimal points, you should be MUCH more concerned than you are, but maybe a misplaced decimal point is why you seem to take this so lackadaisically.


If this becomes widespread we do not have the hospital beds available to provide high level treatment to the relatively large number of cases that require intensive care.