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Old Mar 10, 2020 | 10:40 am
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Originally Posted by narvik
According to Wikipedia (Swine Influenza and 2009 flu pandemic):
Treatable with antiviral drugs, vaccine within 5 months of the 2009 outbreak, case fatality rate of 0.01-0.08%.
So an order of magnitude less infectious and deadly than COCID19. Treatable. No reason to even mention it in the same breath.
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