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Originally Posted by the pleasure
is the coronoa virus a flu or a cold or worse than the flu?
im getting mxed reports
SARs was a Coronavirus. Basically the same as the flu but no known treatment and it messes with your breathing so if you get it and you aren't in the best health already it could kill you.
SARs killed about 10% but it was mostly people over 60.
Too early to tell what mortality rate is on this one but likely to be similar to SARs. Last I checked about 50ish dead and only one was healthy beforehand.
A lot of people die if the flu each year as well and likewise predominantly people over 60. The real issue with new disease like this is that seeing like the flu is a known entity with a capped range of deadliness but something like this has an uncapped range and could ultimately be far worse.
For perspective SARs only infected <10k people globally. The fear is what it could have been not what it was.