COVID-19: Difference between revisions

'''COVID-19''' is the disease caused by a novel Chinese coronavirus with the scary name '''SARS-CoV-2'''.  In the vast majority of US states, the disease has claimed about as many lives as the flu, and has killed dramatically less people than pneumonia without COVID-19.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm</ref>  Danish blood donors suggest the virus is not overall more deadly than the flu, but this is debated.<ref>https://twitter.com/PGtzsche1/status/1250046125656150018</ref><ref>https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/doedelighed-skal-formentlig-taelles-i-promiller-danske-blodproever-kaster-nyt-lys</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/PGtzsche1/status/1250048816864202752</ref><ref>https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---3-march-2020</ref>  If NYC death stats are accurate, the coronavirus associated is objectively worse than the flu in the rare segments of the world that have a large old and sick population in cramped and dirty environments, but still nothing reaching levels that should make the average citizen of NY fearful of their life, or something that would necessitate a shutdown of entire countries.