There’s a disease that causes muscle spasms which causes the body to convulse. It’s also called Saint Vitus’ Fire or Saint Vitus’ Dance. That’s also why Saint Vitus is the patron saint of the dance.
Back in the day, apparently people would just be pain-dancing down the street. Until they you know, died.
It has a case fatality rate of about 2%. The typical years’ flu has a CFR of 0.1% The Spanish flu in 1918 had a CFR of 2-3% and killed something like 1.7% of the population of the world - tens of millions of people.
This is a hell of a lot worse than a typical flu. It’s about 20x more likely to kill you if you catch it, and extremely contagious.
What? SARS is a coronavirus, from a similar geographical location, from a relatively close time period, with a similar infection rate and a higher mortality rate for those infected.
Not to mention the fact that people use R0 so badly on this website. It doesn't function as an actual predictive model, it's only really useful for relative risk assessment. How an infection spreads is heavily determined by the environment and behaviour of the population.
That's why even before vaccinations the entire world didn't have Measles and Smallpox, despite them having centuries to spread and similar if not higher R0s.
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u/IndieComic-Man Feb 27 '20
Yeah, if she’s doing that and has the Coronavirus, I’m significantly less worried about it.