re: Over 400,000 in the world have been infected with COVID-19

Lower than what the data shows, but I don't know about "really low." Italy's death rate is currently above ten percent. Even if you take the death rate down to one or two percent that's still a shitload of people.

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That is 0.00005% of the world's population


Most epidemiologists agree that there are between 10 and 40 more cases for each confirmed positive, depending on the country.

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Oh. So up to 0.002% of the world's population?

I’m sure the diagnoses are undercounted.

But the death rate is overblown, since the people who aren’t diagnosed don’t even come close to death.