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cord-261377-m5djp8mh	Grech, Victor	COVID-19 and potential global mortality - Revisited	2020-04-30		.txt	text/plain	389	34	63	title: COVID-19 and potential global mortality Revisited (1) In a previous paper,(2) this author attempted to assess potential COVID-19 continent-based mortality based on initial WHO data from China which estimated that 14% of infected cases are severe and require hospitalisation, 5% of infected cases are very severe and require intensive care admission, mostly for ventilation, and 4% of infected die. For this reason, the table in the initial paper showing continent and global estimates (2) has been recalculated with a correction factor, an estimated 10% symptomatic proportion of infected individuals. Clearly, this pandemic has the potential to be as severe in terms of mortality as the influenza pandemic of 1918 which killed more than 50 million people and caused more than 500 million infections worldwide.(5) The conclusions of the previous paper stand. Unknown unknowns -COVID-19 and potential global mortality	./cache/cord-261377-m5djp8mh.txt	./txt/cord-261377-m5djp8mh.txt