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Old 22nd Feb 2020, 22:30
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LGS6753
 
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Someone needs some maths tuition here. What the above chart means is that the virus kills 14.8% of the over-80s that it affects. It also kills 8.0% of those in their seventies who contract it, and so on. The 27.7% is therefore a huge exaggeration of the virus's impact.
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