WetEV
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South Korea has been playing wack-a-mole. Or more correctly wack-a-virus.DaveinOlyWA said:True. I think the very mild symptoms in some are resulting in a much wider spread of the disease than we know. The apparent high death rate "could" be as a low the flu as it would appear in most areas (at least in mine) many with the virus are not being tested. They are simply advised to self isolate at home and ride it out. I know two people who have been sick 3 weeks now. Another who was sick for almost two weeks then went to Emergency and was immediately admitted. I have lost contact with him so pretty sure he still isn't home yet.
But our infected count stands at 36. The numbers only change twice a week so we shall see where its at on the next change which should happen today or tomorrow but neither of the two at home are on the infected list and the 3rd likely wasn't until he hit the hospital.
One case is found somewhere, perhaps in a business, test everyone in the building, everyone that visited the building, notify people on their cell phones if they were near that person to go get tested. The lunch place where they ate, the places they shopped. Family and friends. Find some positive test results, repeat. Test everyone with a fever. Test everyone with flu like symptoms. Testing 15,000 or more people per day, and finding 100 or so positive. Testing isn't busy enough, test some random people.
South Korea is finding and isolating enough cases so as to keep the virus from growing. R zero is below 1.0. The virus is losing. That means South Korea is finding by testing more than something like 2/3 of cases. or the infected numbers would be exploding. Many of the cases are in people who have returned from overseas.
South Korea's current death rate is between 1.5% and 3% Exact value will be known at the end of the epidemic.. Many of those infected are both young and female, as the big outbreak in a church was mostly filled with young females. Both young and being female reduce the risk of death.
This is far deadlier than the flu.