Novel coronavirus more deadly than any other pathogen?
Novel coronavirus is more deadly than any other pathogen.
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Updated: 2020-02-21 07:30
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Rumor: Novel coronavirus is more deadly than any other pathogen.
Fact:
The fatality rate of the novel coronavirus pneumonia is around 3 percent (total deaths divided by the number of confirmed cases), much lower than the mortality rate of other pathogens such as Ebola, which has a case fatality rate of up to 90 percent.
And don't forget influenza, which kills hundreds of thousands of people around the world every single year.
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