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kaybe on April 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought...

People on cruise ships are usually not a good sample of the general population, for example, the mean age is quite high.

btilly on April 9, 2020 [–]

But it is also a sample with few in the sickest bracket, who are a disproportionate fraction of deaths.

And the number of deaths is sufficiently small that it is consistent with a wide range of death rates.

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