Originally Posted by
Bruno82
At what point is it ok for someone to be concerned? Is there an infection or mortality threshold?
Some light reading for you...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...tm_term=022420
https://www.who.int/docs/default-sou...nal-report.pdf
462 people around the world died of COVID-19 the week of 23-29 February.
That same week, 2000 Americans died of influenza.
It isn't a pure apples-to-apples comparison; flu spreads faster than COVID even though COVID has a slightly higher R0 number, those infected with flu but not yet symptomatic are major spreaders of flu while that has not yet been proven for COVID, there are antivirals and a vaccine for influenza that there aren't for COVID, and unlike influenza children do not seem to experience serious/severe disease from COVID.
Wash your hands regularly and if you're sick (especially feverish!), stay home.