NOTE: This wasn't created by us, it was found here.
COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus with a high mortality rate for those with risk conditions and elderly. Mortality rate drops with age, and children seem to be safe.
Being a coronavirus, it seems like it wouldn't have long-term effects since it cannot adhere itself to human DNA (like HIV). That being said, a severe case can affect lungs and kidneys, just like any other severe case of respiratory diseases.
Normal flu kills people too and it's contagious. So why should we be worried? First, it's an unknown virus, so better be safe than sorry. Second, it's highly contagious.
Sometimes we need to go to the hospital even with normal flu, and not going and getting proper treatment can even kill us. If healthcare stops working due to a high number of cases — plus personnel supply going down, since they are getting the virus too — then we stop being able to treat even what would be otherwise treatable with proper attention and care.
Hopefully the contagion rate will go down, seasonal change will help, and the growth slope of the virus will go plain soon. But we should be prepared for the worst anyway.
https://coronavirus.app/toll?embed=true
0-27 days for outliers. This is what makes it troublesome, since most of the infected people now don't know they are infected.
Meaning that 1 human is currently transmitting it to 2-4 other humans.
It's transmitted via droplets that get into our systems via the mouth, nose or eyes.
Mortality rates are misleading because of the lag effect and not knowing exact time to mortality. Based on a model computing deaths in the Huibei province, it could be that mortality rate is 5% and time to mortality is 7 days.