Compare this with theswine-flu mortality rate in the US of 0.75%. (This is the best estimate I have been able to find.) It is true that this is the overall rate and one might expect that those cases which go to the ER would be worse than the average. However, the greater the pub...
regardless of where it started,eventually a fifth of the world population suffered the disease, with a global mortality rate ( 死亡率 ) estimated at 2.5% of the population. modernity was partly to blame for the quick spread of the disease. it passed throughout the world on trade routes and...
A vaccine was not developed until the flu was past its peak in many countries. It also occurred in two waves, with the second being more deadly than the first. Luckily, in the United States, the mortality rate was less than half a percent. While many developed the flu, far fewer died...
However, because death rates have dropped by half over the last century with medical advances, the relative increase in excess deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak was substantially greater than the rate during the H1N1 "Spanish flu" pandemic. COVID-19 Mortality Jump From Baseline Was Higher Faus...
St. Louis, Missouri, was different: Schools and movie theaters closed and public gatherings were banned. Consequently, the peak mortality rate in St. Louis was just one-eighth of Philadelphia’s death rate during the peak of the pandemic. ...
The situation is being closely watched by scientists and health officials. Some experts said that a high mortality rate might not necessarily hold true in the event the virus became contagious among people. "We may not see the level of mortality that we're really concerned about," Seema Lakdaw...
Taiwan: 4 flu fatalities since Jan.3rd- 5% mortality rateTaiwan
There have been no H5N1-related deaths reported so far in Americans, and most cases have been relatively mild, suggesting that the virus does not have the high mortality rate of up to 50% seen in Asia. But the small number of confirmed cases so far makes it difficult to estimate its ...
Primary influenza pneumonia is relatively infrequent, occurring in less than 1% of cases during an epidemic, although mortality may be 25–30%. The damage to epithelial cells and subsequent loss of the ability to clear particles from the respiratory tract can lead to secondary bacterial pneumonia....
according to a report published feb. 21 in the cdc publication morbidity and mortality weekly report . the overall flu-related hospitalization rate in the united states is 41.9 cases per 100,000 people, which is similar to what has been seen at this time during recent seasons, the ...