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Actually based on Korea numbers, case fatality rate is 6-fold higher than flu of last year, and number of people who need to be hospitalized is far higher.

In Italy they have done far less testing. They have about same number of REPORTED cases as Korea. Deaths in Italy are quite a bit higher percentage than in Korea. Probable explanation? Reported cases in Italy are just the tip of the iceberg and would be higher if they tested more. If you...

Amazing statistic you can have with your covfefe. Korea has already tested close to 200,000 people. US, less than 2,000.

Doctors often don't. But public health experts and epidemiologists do. It's their bread and butter. That's why you need public health experts making the decisions. To which I add that the current director if the CDC is not a public health expert. It's why his political appointment st tge...

By the way, re my recent comment that the problem was obvious in January, here is some simple arithmetic: Assume the death rate is 1%. That suggests by the time one person dies, 100 were already infected a couple weeks earlier. Assume the rate of spread for any new coronavirus. That means by...

Back to the OP, 16 pages back. I find it appalling that the Olympics have not been canceled. Talk about a perfect way to jumpstart the spread of this even assuming it dies down a bit over the summer!

Data from Korea like I said. Because of more extensive testing there they have better estimate of number of people infected. That is where 0.6% comes from. It's still an estimate but it seems like the best estimate. It was obvious in January that a response was needed no matter what the...

I am not in any position to judge that. I don't have facts at my disposal about WHO, at least not from sources that I can trust. I wouldn't surprise me. But while you are all in a lather about the "globalists" keep a few other things in mind, which are based on facts that we have at hand. In...

I've heard a little bit about it. How does it respond to booster? And does it work well with carbon blades? Does it come in hard and soft versions? How does it work with the new ABS balls? And can you get it on prott.net?

I disagree too about Der Echte's somewhat casual dismissal of this threat. In the US it is very early stages, we don't know where it is headed, and it is clear we have been caught unprepared so it could be bad. I emphasize again that up to 20% may need to be hospitalized. And too many of...

Andy Smith as usual is absolutely correct. Here's another thing. In the US a lot of people don't have health insurance. For those people, a serious case of pneumonia requiring hospitalization ruins them economically. How many people get that sick? A very significant percentage. In Wuhan...

Or the thing New Zealand rugby players do. That would be cool.

A test is not the same thing as a vaccine. Developing a reliable and sensitive test for a virus is easy. This is not the first coronavirus known to medicine! By contrast, developing a vaccine is not easy. Part of what is making this hard to control is that a lot of people seem to have...

There is some molecular evidence now (looks solid but not yet peer-reviewed) that Covid19 has actually been in the US for several weeks now. If that's true here, probably true quite a few places. In the US the response has been about as bad as it is possible to be, primarily the fact that not...

Well for sure I would find anything ZJK has to say about TT or even sports in general to be interesting, especially if it was substantive (fat chance of tha though). But breathlessly re-posting his social media stuff about pets and Covid19 as if it spring from Zeus himself is a bit mind...

Wiping sweating hands on table is gross and it is long overdue to ban that. I would be happy for ITTF to make a rule on that. But the one thing that we can't change is that our sport requires both players to put their hands on the ball repeatedly. And that can spread a virus. If you are sick...

It might be the test kit they were using. It is only 70% sensitive. A better one will be out soon.

It is almost impossible to help things like this from spreading. It could be one of these infected people entered the US before people really knew this was a problem, and that's all it takes. Still, when the first response is to call it a political hoax, and then putting Mike Pence in charge...

Here is a little fun fact that the Globalists and the Libruhl Media don't want you to know. In phagocytic cells a pair of enzmes (NOX2 and catalase) produce hydrogen peroxide, which then reacts with chloride ions in an acidic environment to produce.............. bleach!!!! Good old Chlorox...

I am more impressed by the ambidexterity than the middle shot actually.