Myths about coronavirus - COVID 19
Myths about coronavirus - COVID 19 Coronavirus is a deadly disease This is not true. If you see statistical, the death rate of coronavirus is approximate 2% which is much lower than SARS where the death percentage was 5 to 6%, MERS where it is 34%, EBOLA 14.4%. If you compare coronavirus with the ordinary flu where the death rate is 0.1, the fatality rate of coronavirus is slightly higher but not very. The problem with coronavirus is that it is highly contagious. Which means that it spread faster amongst people. What is so unique about coronavirus spread The spread of the virus means how quickly it jumps from one person to another. The coronavirus appears to have a spread prate of 2 to 3. This means if a person is infected with coronavirus he will transfer it to another 2-3 person. Now if you compare this with the measles virus, the spread rate is 11 to 17 people. So compared to measles infection coronavirus spreads lesser. However, this rate of 2-3 is also an alarming rate...