You’ve probably seen case fatality rate of 10%. Wrong strain; the W.Afr strain has a CFR of 1%–and that’s in poor, rural populations. That number isn’t an immutable property of the virus, and in a western country, you’d expect it to be way lower. 12/ https://t.co/SvEntsKEd3

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