See the bottom of this post: They raised the death toll by 50%!
50% is a large number.. and by that I mean, if the mortality rate is actually 2.5%
I'm not saying I agree with what is coming out of Wuhan because it was at least an accidental leak of an unknown strain of Conavirus they decided came from that marketplace in Wuhan.
I am having a difficult time believing it wasn't a lab worker (patient 0) that was careless and became infected, and then went to the market, or if that was complete fabrication (The market). Governments have a way of covering themselves with believable facsimile of the truth.
Even if the patient zero came from there or not, the fact is, this is a very large unknown and equal opponent to people not unlike the Spanish Flu which targeted under-developed immune systems such as was seen in younger people and left older folks to survive the infection. 679,000 Americans died (50m-200m worldwide), and I'm willing to consider a much higher number as this was recorded in 1918-. There was a fascinating show about it.
I can't locate the source of it but here is an interesting link to The History Channel.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.
www.history.com
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