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Tiamatium t1_j9sjg5e wrote

People keep panicking, saying this thing has death rate of 50-60%. One thing you need to understand is that only cases where people die are being reported, and from there on other cases are being established. Chances are that in absolute majority of cases people get infected, get better and cases are never reported, especially in countries like Cambodia.

Similar thing was happening with COVID, where at first only cases where people needed hospitalization were being reported (and without hospitalization they would have died), but once it became a pandemic, we started mass testing and death rate dropped.

Also this is pandemic we were preparing for, for decades. Chances are this is not going to be as bad as COVID, it's probably more like swine flu pandemic of 2010ish, and those that lived through it probably never knew there was a pandemic going on.

Downvote me if you want.

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canimal14 t1_j9sztsd wrote

take my upvote for common sense and also stopping my panic attack, also, don’t we have stockpiles of this vaccine? Because this scenario has always been a not if it happens but when kind of deal?

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cryptid_snake88 t1_j9t0tzq wrote

I thought so too but I read a scientific journal that stated we don't have a vaccine ready to go because if it did become transmissible H2H then it would be a mutation. They would only be able to prepare the vaccine when they have information on the biological structure of the mutation

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