Victor
Extremely informative interview with Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University who suggests that the coronavirus may not be nearly as dangerous as initially thought. He points out that the Diamond Princess cruise ship serves as a natural laboratory for studying the virus. Data from the Princess suggest lethality of 0.5% rather than 3.4% with the great majority of deaths occurring in those 70 and older. Of 3,700 passengers only 634 tested positive and less than half showed symptoms. See:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-outbreak-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-death-rate
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Presumably on a cruise ship everybody comes in contact with almost everybody yet on the Princess only 17% tested positive suggesting coronavirus is not particularly contagious. Only 6 of that 634 died, slightly less than 1%, suggesting it is not particularly virulent.