Coronavirus: what we know and what we don’t

Paris, Feb 22 (AFP/APP): Researchers want to know everything about the latest coronavirus, from its mortality rate to its origins, incubation period and much more, and they still have blanks to fill in. – Mortality rate? – COVID-19, as the disease is known, is more lethal than the average seasonal flu, but less so than previous epidemics stemming from coronaviruses. We do not yet know its precise mortality rate. World Health Organization data released Saturday identified 2,348 deaths from 76,392 confirmed cases in China, for a rough rate of 3.07 percent. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China … Continue reading Coronavirus: what we know and what we don’t