Mers is just a few mutations away from being a pandemic threat, study suggests
... similar to the Spanish flu a century ago for its first wave (two years).The death rate of the circulating coronavirus will unlikely be clear until after the pandemic has passed. Experts have previously estimated the fatality rate at 1% to 2%.
... similar to the second wave of the Spanish flu, where over a third of those contracting it in the morning drowned in their own blood later the same day.Mers is said to kill more than a third (35%) of patients
I desperately hope that we're near the end rather than just at the end of the beginning
