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anyone have a sense of what the fatality rate for covid19 would be *without* modern medical capabilities? the comparisons to spanish flu seem harder to make since that pre-dated ventilators and antibiotics (both dating to 1928) for eg
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they couldn't treat pneumonia, however they *did* have a method for preventing it -- hydrotherapy. apparently there's a study from a sanitarium that had an in-patient death rate of only 1.3%.
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