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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a coronavirus.  It has a mortality rate of at least 1%.
MERS is a coronavirus.  It has a mortality rate of 20-30%.
SARS is a coronavirus.  It has a mortality rate of 15%.

This is not a flu.  A flu is the influenza virus.
The seasonal flu has a mortality rate of 0.1%.
The 1918 pandemic flu had a mortality rate of 2%.

Left is a coronavirus (CoV) spike protein.  Middle is an influenza spike protein.

These are different viruses.  This is a coronavirus.

[img]https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/web/110141_web.jpg[/img][/quote]

Also worth mentioning -- the current coronavirus has an R0 of 2-2.5, which means it is much more contagious than flu.    And, because it is so contagious, it infects more people, which means, more hospitalizations, which can overwhelm the hospital care system, and when this happens the mortality rate can be significantly higher. In addition, about 20% of coronavirus patients end up hospitalized which is about 10 times more than the flu where typically only 1-2% of the cases end up hospitalized.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/20/815408287/how-the-novel-coronavirus-and-the-flu-are-alike-and-different[/quote]

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