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...... and that is because nobody knows much about the virus so everybody is making, predictions, forecasts and projections that are essentially meaningless.
However one thing that everybody knows is that it has only killed 25 people in Singapore and has a case fatality rate of 0.06% based upon the confirmed infection numbers vs deaths.
Asian flu which hit Singapore in 1957/58 had a case fatality rate of 0.67 which means it was greater than 10x more deadly than Covid-19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–1958_influenza_pandemic
Mortality estimates
The case fatality rate of Asian flu was approximately 0.67%.[12] The disease was estimated to have a 3% rate of complications and 0.3% mortality in the United Kingdom;[3] it could cause pneumonia by itself, without the presence of secondary bacterial infection. It may have infected as many or more people than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, but the vaccine, improved health care, and the invention of antibiotics contributed to a lower mortality rate.[1] Overall, the pandemic caused 1 to 2 million deaths worldwide[2] or 2 to 4 million.[1] The UK Government estimates that between 1 and 4 million people died worldwide.[13][14] The CDC estimates 1.1 million deaths worldwide.[15] According to a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the highest excess mortality occurred in Latin America.[16] About 70,000[1][11] to 116,000 people died in the United States.[17] In early 1958, it was estimated that 14,000 people had already died of the flu in the United Kingdom of the 9 million who became sick.[3] It caused many infections in children, spreading in schools and leading to many school closures, but was rarely fatal in children. The virus was most deadly in pregnant women, the elderly, and those with pre-existing heart and lung disease.[1] According to the researcher Barbara Sands,[who?][when?] some of the excess mortality attributed to the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China may have actually been caused by the 1957 flu.[18]
However one thing that everybody knows is that it has only killed 25 people in Singapore and has a case fatality rate of 0.06% based upon the confirmed infection numbers vs deaths.
Asian flu which hit Singapore in 1957/58 had a case fatality rate of 0.67 which means it was greater than 10x more deadly than Covid-19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–1958_influenza_pandemic
Mortality estimates
The case fatality rate of Asian flu was approximately 0.67%.[12] The disease was estimated to have a 3% rate of complications and 0.3% mortality in the United Kingdom;[3] it could cause pneumonia by itself, without the presence of secondary bacterial infection. It may have infected as many or more people than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, but the vaccine, improved health care, and the invention of antibiotics contributed to a lower mortality rate.[1] Overall, the pandemic caused 1 to 2 million deaths worldwide[2] or 2 to 4 million.[1] The UK Government estimates that between 1 and 4 million people died worldwide.[13][14] The CDC estimates 1.1 million deaths worldwide.[15] According to a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the highest excess mortality occurred in Latin America.[16] About 70,000[1][11] to 116,000 people died in the United States.[17] In early 1958, it was estimated that 14,000 people had already died of the flu in the United Kingdom of the 9 million who became sick.[3] It caused many infections in children, spreading in schools and leading to many school closures, but was rarely fatal in children. The virus was most deadly in pregnant women, the elderly, and those with pre-existing heart and lung disease.[1] According to the researcher Barbara Sands,[who?][when?] some of the excess mortality attributed to the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China may have actually been caused by the 1957 flu.[18]
