All Hokie, All the Time. Period. Presented by

The Lounge Board

AbsolutVT03

Joined: 01/05/2001 Posts: 30435
Likes: 16516


FYI a .68% fatality rate across the 228 million people that would need to


be infected to achieve herd immunity w/o a vaccine comes out to around 1.5 million dead.

And I don't think anyone thought it was more lethal than ebola. It's not. The difference is ebola is harder to spread in part because it requires contact with bodily fluids of an infected person and in part because it debilitates and kills so quickly that the infected person usually doesn't have much time to spread it outside of his home. Put another way, ebola is more lethal but waaaayyy easier to contain. That's what makes this virus tricky. It's just lethal enough to be a concern but also innocuous enough to be spread quickly and easily.

(In response to this post by GreenvilleVT)

Posted: 07/22/2020 at 12:29PM



+2

Insert a Link

Enter the title of the link here:


Enter the full web address of the link here -- include the "http://" part:


Current Thread:
 
  
Covid fatality rate -- GreenvilleVT 07/22/2020 09:37AM
  Thanks for the research. ** -- ColoVT82 07/22/2020 2:09PM
  Incorrect. ** -- AbsolutVT03 07/22/2020 4:00PM
  Article name? ** -- HealthHokie 07/22/2020 12:05PM
  Got it.Thx ** -- HealthHokie 07/22/2020 12:59PM
  IMHO, the most telling part of that -- RTFC 07/22/2020 11:25AM
  42.4% of US adults are medically obese -- Beerman 07/22/2020 1:43PM
  I'm sure there is -- Beerman 07/22/2020 5:34PM
  Really low. Many of the fatalities in the early months -- GreenvilleVT 07/22/2020 10:58AM
  You can't spread obesity or diabetes ** -- VTSnake 07/22/2020 11:35AM
  And I also explained to you. And here we are. -- vthokieq 07/22/2020 12:43PM
  Read the thread! -- vthokieq 07/22/2020 12:57PM
  I don’t think there is any doubt there is a.... -- vthokieq 07/22/2020 12:19PM
  Its going to end up being like the common cold -- HokieForever 07/22/2020 09:54AM
  Maybe not -- No Clue 07/22/2020 10:21AM
  Aware of the evidence giving my opinion ** -- HokieForever 07/22/2020 10:25AM
  I think a lot of early cases were not tested due to -- GreenvilleVT 07/22/2020 09:57AM
  True -- Beerman 07/22/2020 10:17AM
  Sound opinion ** -- HokieForever 07/22/2020 10:07AM

Tech Sideline is Presented By:

Our Sponsors

vm307