Reply #41: Since we don't have serological results on most of the cases or deaths

[depakid]

there's no good way to estimate a cause-specific mortality rate. One could probably hazard a guess that it's a bit higher than the typical nasty A strain- and probability of death/age distibution will look more like a W shape than the U one sees with influenza.



Seems to me that we're pretty damn lucky that it's broken out now, rather than in late November.