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Facts About Coronavirus by holuwhartosin(m): 1:59pm On May 11, 2020
1. According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average
about 0.2% , which is in the range of a severe
influenza (flu) and about twenty times lower than originally assumed by the WHO.
2. Even in the global “hotspots”, the risk of death for the general population of school and working age is typically in the range of a daily car ride to work. The risk was initially overestimated because many people with only mild or no symptoms were not taken into account.
3. Up to 80% of all test-positive persons remain symptom-free . Even among 70-79 year olds, about 60% remain symptom-free. Over 95% of all persons show mild symptoms at most.
4. Up to one third of all persons already have a certain background immunity to Covid19 due to contact with previous coronaviruses (i.e. common cold viruses).
5. The median or average age of the deceased in most countries (including Italy ) is over 80 years and only about 1% of the deceased had no serious preconditions. The age and risk profile of deaths thus essentially corresponds to normal mortality .
6. In most Western countries, 50 to 70% of all extra deaths occurred in nursing homes, which do not benefit from a general lockdown. Moreover, in many cases it is not clear whether these people really died from Covid19 or from extreme stress , fear and loneliness.
7. Up to 50% of all additional deaths may have been caused not by Covid19 , but by the effects of the
lockdown, panic and fear. For example, the treatment of heart attacks and strokes decreased by up to 60% because many patients no longer dared to go to hospital.
8. Even in so-called “Covid19 deaths” it is often not clear whether they died from or with coronavirus (i.e. from underlying diseases) or if they were counted as “presumed cases” and not tested at all. However, official figures usually do not reflect this distinction.
9. Many media reports of young and healthy people dying from Covid19 turned out to be false: many of these young people either did not die from Covid19, they had already been seriously ill (e.g. from undiagnosed leukaemia), or they were in fact
109 instead of 9 years old.
10. The normal overall mortality per day is about 8000 people in the US, about 2600 in Germany and about 1800 in Italy. Influenza mortality per season is up to 80,000 in the US and up to 25,000 in Germany and Italy. In several countries Covid19 deaths remained below strong flu seasons.
Re: Facts About Coronavirus by Nobody: 2:04pm On May 11, 2020
Some one can die from the complications of coronavirus......... Just like other diseases and conditions

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Re: Facts About Coronavirus by holuwhartosin(m): 2:23pm On May 11, 2020
it's only God that can keep us safe this period. and the govt self is not helping the citizen.
Re: Facts About Coronavirus by Atlas1999(m): 2:25pm On May 11, 2020
Hmm..this is serious��

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