• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases

    Oh, its much worse. That’s the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.