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Old 03-13-2020, 10:23 AM
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It’s not solely old people with preexisting conditions who die from the virus. The doctor in China who discovered the virus and treated early patients died from it, and he was in his 30’s. The mortality rate for people catching the virus appears to be between 1-3%, depending on which stats you read, but that is not uniform across all age groups. Very few young health people currently die from it, which implies the percentage of older people who die from it is a lot higher.
And that's exactly what the Chinese government wants you to think... he died from the virus and not the beating he took for outing the outbreak...
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