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What’s the percent of severe vs mild cases of non-fatal covidism? Ideally worse than flu/milder than flu stats would be nice to have.
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afaict the baseline rates are 50% asynptomatic, 30% mild, 20% severe. But these are pretty misleading because it varies wildly by age and I’ve only seen breakouts for estimate mortality rate, not symptom severity. You might be able to guesstimate though
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Well the asymptomatic seems hard to take seriously unless they are doing random population sampling, which I don't think anybody is, but yeah, the age variation is the big uncertainty factor. Also comorbidity effects with other conditions (including regular flu)
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fair points, the data is certainly questionable but I believe the estimate came from the (presumably self contained) japan-marooned princess cruise ship. Will have to double check
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