Not to be morbid, but this list puts COVID-19 in context - human disease fatality rates

[NRaleighLiberal]

Better educated than not on this developing situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates

It is 20 from the bottom, about 50 from the top - very surprised they have 1918 Spanish Flu at around 2.5%, COVID-19 at 3.7%

[Coventina]

1. Interesting list! Thanks!!

K&R

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Can't help it - as a scientist, in times like these, I just want to devour information

form of self therapy, I guess (along with growing heirloom tomatoes!)

[spooky3]

9. I'm thinking this is an excellent spring to start a Virus (vs. Victory) Garden

complete with tomatoes. I just have to figure out how to keep out the squirrels and birds (I'm not good at building stuff) and the pepper I sprinkled on the small # of plants I had on the deck last year only helped a little.

[Kablooie]

3. So Covid-19 is more lethal than Smallpox. Doesn't sound encouraging.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. That's smallpox contracted in spite of vaccination.

Without vaccination, smallpox is 30% fatal. The hemorrhagic form is 95% fatal.

Smallpox is way worse.

[Sogo]

5. I could be completely wrong, but

it seems to me that this chart is kind of like apples and oranges. Contagion is the wild card that is not taken into consideration in this ranking....no?

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. it is what it is...information.

you raise a good point.

[uppityperson]

7. Slowing down the speed o c spread will avoid overwhelming the healthcare system

Eventually many people will have had it, but if we can have only a handful severely I'll at any one time, that'll help.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Not to be alarmist, but we haven't got the slightest clue how many lives COVID has claimed.

So there is absolutely no way that list can have any accuracy at all.

Does anybody here believe that Russia has only had 17 cases and no deaths? That North Korea has had 0 cases? Turkey has 0 cases? Only 8 deaths in Beijing? We KNOW we haven't had hardly any testing in this country at all, and so it follows logically that we have no clue whatsoever how many have died from COVID.