COVID-19: Difference between revisions

'''COVID-19''' is the disease caused by a novel Chinese coronavirus with the scary name '''SARS-CoV-2'''.  In almost all US states, the disease has claimed about as many lives as the flu, almost no lives below age 30, 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>  Random sampling of Santa Clara County, CA shows that 4% of Silicon Valley may have been infected as of late April,<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/17/1000113/up-to-4-of-silicon-valley-already-infected-with-coronavirus/</ref> suggesting around a 0.1% infection mortality rate for healthy cities.<ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=santa+clara+county+coronvirus+deaths</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation</ref>  If NYC death stats are accurate, the coronavirus associated is objectively worse than the flu for those old and sick people in the few areas of the world that contain millions of cramped, sick, and old people (such as nursing homes and culturally old, hyper-cramped cities).  On the whole, the disease doesn't reach fatality levels that would make the average citizen of NY in danger, more or less people from other states, or something that would necessitate a shutdown of entire countries.