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amrx431 | 5 years ago

On a different note, some research must be done to investigate such low prevalence and fatality ratio in countries like India and Pakistan.

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anovikov|5 years ago

Super easy, they just have very, very few old people. Different population pyramids. Hence low fatality ratio. And low prevalence is just because vast majority of people are young and have it asymptomatically.

It may also play a role that asymptomatic carriers have lower chance of transmitting infection, so R0 in those countries is lower.

riprock|5 years ago

Thoughts on countries like Japan with a super-aged population but with low fatality ratio?