Statistically it’s becoming a ‘pandemic’.
Still, the chance that you die from Corona is far less than that you die from heart disease.
With 2707 deaths thus far and 23 countries infected in just a couple months, chances are you are impressed.
And now that Italy was infected and shuts down a state, and the first infections in Spain, it’s all over the news in Europe.
Thing is, looking at the statistics: Since February 4th, the number of new cases per day is decreasing daily.
Your statistical chance of dying of heart disease this year is 0,026%; global average. If Corona accounts for 100x the deaths than it does now – which is incredibly unlikely looking at recent past infection diseases – your chance of dying of Corona is 0,000035%.
0,000035%… That approaches the chance that you get struck by lightning this year, which is 0,0000014%…
I’d like to point you to this infographic (image below), which I really appreciate. It shows that media coverage doesn’t reflect the real risk that something happens to you. At all.
I’ll let the data speak for itself.
