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Originally Posted by chris719
SARS will probably end up being more lethal, but less contagious. It's hard to say we know everything about SARS either because it made such a brief appearance and we were lucky enough to contain it.
There is unfortunately not a ton of understanding on how changes in the virus affect pathogenicity.
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I looked up the death rate from the 2003 SARS outbreak out of curiosity. From what I saw, it looks like it was around 15%. It will be interesting to see how it compares to COVID-19, but the current mortality rate is around 20% (based on currently resolved cased. As of today, there have been about 1.3 million infected cases and only about 250k resolved cases.