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		explore on Jan 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health ... Based on "all confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital from Jan 1 to Jan 20, 2020": 11% "died of multiple organ failure" and 23% are in intensive care unit https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

peteretep on Jan 31, 2020 [–]

You've quoted this deeply misleading statistic without context more than once. Please desist!

explore on Jan 31, 2020 | [–]

This is not statistics, these are all confirmed local cases of a 20 days period. However, the future distribution may not follow this pattern.

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