Hmm, if these numbers are accurate wouldn’t the number of deaths in China already be much higher?

Yes, it is a really big deal. Because there are no real barriers to spread and the reproductive factor (R0) is so high, it is possible and indeed likely that 20% to 70% of the global population will be infected. That is 1.5 billion to 5 billion people. With an estimated mortality rate of about 2%, that is 30 million to 100 million deaths globally.

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1 min readMar 12, 2020

Hmm, if these numbers are accurate wouldn’t the number of deaths in China already be much higher? And the number of people infected too? We are seeing the opposite in China now and efforts to come up with a vaccine are well under way.

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