Originally Posted by
inOban
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54648684
Since there are some on this thread who don't understand why this virus is much more serious than the similar ones which cause the common cold, or the flu virus, I found the link above interesting.
All virus can be serious to the people getting them. Majority of people infcted with this so far are recovering.
This Virus is a lot less serious than 1918 Flu pandemic, the population of the World was 1.8 billion, 500 million caught it and between 50-100 million died. A death rate of 10-20% and close to 30% of the population being infected. On a similar level today it would see 2.2 billion infected with between 220 - 530 million people dying.
1968 Flu pandemic killed between 1-4 million people on a population of 3.6 billlion.