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Hi, I really want to know the truth behind all this. I hear everywhere that there are around 80 deaths, but I heard somewhere that its all fake and a lot of people died in Wuhan. I also heard an interesting theory but that was too unbelievable and I also don't believe it. So I won't tell that. There are any real Chinese who can tell me the real situation? I believe in the 80 deaths but it keeps irritating me when I think that it may be fake.
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Yeah. same, i'm kinda frightened
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I can assure you that the virus is indeed real and the numbers are more than likely higher in China than what's actually been reported. Viruses naturally leave the body on their own will, and viruses aren't considered living organisms either. Antibiotics will do nothing and vaccines are still being worked on by the WHO. China is a police state, so keep in mind they control the media and how people react to the virus within their own country.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1ZQ0K5
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SARS are types of viruses than mutate rapidly attacking your bronchioles (lung cells) and lymphatic system. Hence the name, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome."
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https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/
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Originally Posted by Maya View Post
We have one confirmed case here in Seattle, WA, USA and I'm not sure whether or not we got that person quarantined before it spread any further.

It's made it's way here to Australia as well - 4 confirmed in NSW, one in Victoria.

Not really too personally concerned though. This is like, what, the 4th major pandemic we've had growing up? Swine flu, bird flu and there was another one or two before that. Definitely wouldn't want to be in Wuhan, but statistically, I don't think there's much chance of me or anyone I know being affected by this. I think there's definitely something to be said here about media scaremongering - This aint no WWZ (which you might think it is, if you tuned into some TV news reports). I reckon I'll continue carrying on worrying about my country burning to the ground, rather than this.
Originally Posted by Enclave View Post
SARS are types of viruses than mutate rapidly attacking your bronchioles (lung cells) and lymphatic system. Hence the name, "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome."
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https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

Except that SARS isn't a 'type of virus' but a specific designation given to an outbreak in 2001–2003 which also happened in China. The only thing SARS and the current outbreak have in common is that they are both coronaviruses (which is probably what you meant to say)
Apparently its genomic sequence is 75-80% identical as well. Which would make sense, as you say, since they're both a part of the same family of viruses.

Also, for everyone that's really scared by this, to put things in perspective, this virus currently has a fatality rate of just less than .03%. That's about on par with swine flu. Seasonal influenza, 'The Flu', has a fatality rate of 0.1% (over 3x higher than this coronavirus).

Everything's gonna be fine.
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Okay, this guy works for China labs ^
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Originally Posted by Ele View Post
Apparently its genomic sequence is 75-80% identical as well. Which would make sense, as you say, since they're both a part of the same family of viruses.

Also, for everyone that's really scared by this, to put things in perspective, this virus currently has a fatality rate of just less than .03%. That's about on par with swine flu. Seasonal influenza, 'The Flu', has a fatality rate of 0.1% (over 3x higher than this coronavirus).

Everything's gonna be fine.

I just read that it's closer to 3% death rate
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At least hungary is safe for now. I heard the virus already reached to Germany tough...
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I personally think it's man made for population control but I don't think we will ever know so all we can do is guess and believe what we are told I suppose
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