Coronavirus update: has covid-19 exceeded sars fatality rate?

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When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) hit Asia in 2003, fears surrounding the virus's potential began circulating. With a fatality rate of about 10 percent and no cure in sight,


mass hysteria ensued. Fast forward to the present, similar fears have arisen. A six death has been reported in the UK, 168 deaths recorded in Italy and more than 1,000 deaths in China. Has


coronavirus exceeded the fatality rate of SARS? The SARS virus was something scientists had never seen before. Like other viruses, including Ebola and influenza, its believed to have started


in animals and spread to humans. Animal-to-person spread was suspected after the initial outbreak among people who had a link to a large seafood and live animal market located in Wuhan,


China. Most people who get struck with coronavirus recover at home with some needing hospitalisation and for those with any preexisting health conditions, death. Scientists can’t yet say for


sure what the fatality rate of coronavirus is, as there is some uncertainty about the exact number of those infected. DON’T MISS The mortality numbers of coronavirus lag behind infection


numbers simply because it takes days to weeks for severely ill people to die from coronavirus. Thus, current death rates should properly be divided by the number of known infections from the


previous week or two, research wrote in February in Swiss Medical Weekly. Almost two months into coronavirus epidemic and the World Health Organisation (WHO), for the first time, released a


COVID-19 fatality rate on 3 March. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing last Tuesday: “Globally about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died."


President Donald Trump said on Fox News: “I think the 3.4 percent number is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations…personally, I’d say the


number is way under 1 percent.” However a WHO spokesperson did call the number “the current global ‘snapshot.’” Vineet Menarchery, a virologist at the University of Texas, said: “With SARS,


once they figured out the animals were responsible in China, they were able to start culling them from the live markets. "It’s like a burst water pipe. You have to find the source in


order to shut it off.”


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