"From that perspective, think of your chances of winning the lottery. When you look at your chances of being involved in an accident, if you look at many of the life risks we face, this is a significant issue."
As a point of comparison, the odds of winning the U.S. Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302 million, and 1 in 292 million for the Powerball.Kerkhove, head of the WHO's emerging diseases unit. She said:"One thing we are looking at is not just the number of deaths from reported cases, but what is the estimated number of deaths from the infections. That estimate is 0.6 percent."That may not sound like a lot, but if you think of a virus that has the potential to spread widely, and we have measures in place to be able to prevent that, that's a pretty high number. And that infection percent increases dramatically by age.
A woman in a mask walks past a mural of a hand on the side of a building in Midtown New York City April 22, 2020, amid thealso highlighted that the average age of people catching theincreasing."That is incredibly worrying and so we do need to prevent those infections," she said. Van Kerkhove said the drop in the age of infected people is partly due to the fact tests are given to the seriously ill at the start of any pandemic,Overall, deaths are reducing, she said, because more is known about how to care for patients, and infectious diseases are being detected faster.-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, its highest alert level, more than 29.8 million people have been infected with the, and 940,716 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
But you are one among million to be effected by Coronavirus!
Thanks bro
Now do “die from it if u are under 60 and have no underlying conditions”
Cheers, thanks for lifting my spirits 😐
You are one million times more likely to win the lottery than to die from coronavirus
Which is why I don’t bother.
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