Quote Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us View Post
It's really not hard ot fudge. 90% of cases will be in people healthy enough that they don't need to go to a Dr. Of those who do go, only test those who have ALL symptoms, or just don't test everyone. Past that, just don't report all the positive results. China is an authoritarian regime, of course they'd do that to keep panic levels down.

Hell, right here in the USA Dr Hellen Chu in Seattle had to violate orders from the CDC to test flu patients for it, without her doing that we literally wouldn't know it's in Washington (now up to 366 confirmed cases there). A guy in NYC got sick after flying so he called the hotline to get tested. They told him he had to have 1) cough to uncontrollable to speak, 2) difficulty breathing, AND a fever of 102+... just to find out where the testing center is, not even be given one or told he would get one. If our own Gov't is doing such a bad job of tracking this you really can't trust China's numbers

PS, Dr Brian Monahan (the head Dr for the Senate and Supreme court) says 70-150M Americans will get it, so Hoops 1/3rd estimate is right in line with what professionals think.
70-150 million with a death rate of 3% is 2.1-4.5 million deaths. I'm not buying that at all. If he's predicting 70-150 million, then I say the 3% death rate is grossly exaggerated.