{"id":51597,"date":"2020-03-05T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51597"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:26:35","slug":"who-coronavirus-is-more-deadly-than-originally-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51597","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Coronavirus is More Deadly Than Originally Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHO: CORONAVIRUS IS MORE DEADLY THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The World Health Organization has announced that the death rate for those who contract the coronavirus is higher than originally thought.  Even though getting the coronavirus only comes with a 3.4% mortality rate, the virus\u2019 rapid spread could bump that number even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, WHO assumed the death rate from those who get infected with the COVID-19 virus, was only 2%.  That has been revised upwards to 3.4%. \u201cGlobally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency\u2019s headquarters in Geneva.  In comparison, the seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, it\u2019s not like this is a huge jump considering the number of people who have been infected, yet as this virus lingers, it has the unintended consequence of killing more than previously thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, a Harvard scientist claimed that the coronavirus could infect 70% of the population. That means 5.3 billion people could catch it and if the mortality rate is now 3.4%, almost 180 million people globally could die. That\u2019s more than Joe Biden claims were killed by guns in the U.S. since 2007.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All joking aside, this could end up being a pretty serious debacle. Prepping supplies are selling out<\/a>, face masks that will actually help are selling out, and people are panicking over the stock market.  Unless you\u2019ve prepared in advance, you are also likely feeling some anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World \u201cauthorities\u201d admit they don\u2019t know much about this virus, yet are hopeful it can be contained. Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO\u2019s health emergencies program, said Monday that the coronavirus isn\u2019t transmitting the same exact way as the flu and health officials have been given a \u201cglimmer, a chink of light\u201d that the virus could be contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHO: CORONAVIRUS IS MORE DEADLY THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT The World Health Organization has announced that the death rate for those who contract the coronavirus is higher than originally thought.  Even though getting the coronavirus only comes with a 3.4% mortality rate, the virus\u2019 rapid spread could bump that number even higher. Originally, WHO assumed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29166,7258,878],"class_list":["post-51597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-fatality-rate","tag-viral-outbreak","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51598,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597\/revisions\/51598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}