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> COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%. Pneumonic plague, without antibiotics, has a case fatality rate of 100%.

a) why are we comparing treated death rates with untreated death rates?

b) COVID got significantly less deadly as it evolved, which is a known phenomenon that should also apply to this plague

c) that link hijacked my back button, I don't appreciate that >:-(

parent KK7NIL 26 days ago

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