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Comment Re:Grade A purified horseshit (Score 2) 160

There are no unbiased samples.
China - there is chance that numbers are underreported, because historically that has been happening.
Iran - also high chance of underreporting, because of totalitarian government
Italy, South Korea - critical or death ratio to confirmed are magnitudes off from each other, so there are some unknown factors.
France, Germany, Spain - public health system, but sample size is too small to get any meaningful results.

Comment Re:Not needed (Score 1) 175

I wouldn't trust Korea or Italy numbers, they are different so far from each other, and there is no explanation of that. Take 5000 total cases, 27 critical and 34 deaths for South Korea, vs 2500 cases, 229 critical and 79 deaths for Italy. How is that even possible, Italy should be having pretty good medicare, and so should South Korea.
Iran is understandably underreported.
Unfortunately i don't see any reliable way how to find actual numbers and working methods.

Comment Re: Ordinary flu (Score 2, Insightful) 236

I don't understand why everyone is using infected rate to deaths, rather than recovered rate to deaths.
Right now numbers at https://www.worldometers.info/... are:

84176 infected
2876 deaths
36884 recovered

So, death rate should be approximately (there could be unreported cases, etc, and you could argue that serious cases should be accounted):

2876 / (36884 + 2876) = 2876 / 39760 = 7%

I am not trying to raise panic, but using deaths to infected does not seem correct to me.

Comment Re:Ribavirin (Score 1) 140

From wikipedia

Common side effects include feeling tired, headache, nausea, fever, muscle pains, and an irritable mood.[1] Serious side effects include red blood cell breakdown, liver problems, and allergic reactions.[1] Use during pregnancy results in harm to the baby.[1] Effective birth control is recommended for both males and females for at least 7 months during and after use.[3] The mechanism of action of ribavirin is not entirely clear.[1]

Thanks, but no.. I rather have cold, than get liver damage and hope for something that's not researched completely

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