<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well there is a study with some actual numbers: </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v2.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v2.full.pdf+html</a><br></div><div><br></div>It's a preprint and the infection has not completed at the time (so # deaths maybe higher) <div>What is interesting is it's a closed environment and everyone was tested. So in this </div><div>ship we know the exact infection rate. </div><div>How this applies to a city population? Is the "social distance" on a cruise ship more or less than normal? </div><div>The number of deaths was low (7 out of 3700 passengers) Maybe the true rate is +- 1 or 2. But if we take the 7 number then we have .2% of the total population. So the estimates we see of </div><div>half million US deaths sound reasonable. </div><div><br></div><div>I thought this was very interesting as all other reports I've seen have rates for deaths per diagnosed cases, but we don't really know what the infection rate is. </div><div><br></div><div>Stay safe: some advice I heard: Act as if you are already infected. Try hard to prevent spreading to others. </div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><br>
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