“The percentage of severe cases among Wuhan medical staff has gradually decreased from 38.9 percent at the peak to 12.7 percent in early February.”
The disease has now killed nearly 1,900 people and infected more than 72,000 in China since it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan late last year.
While the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak of 2002-2003 affected fewer people, the fatality rate was nearly 10 percent. An analysis of 1,688 severe cases among medical staff showed that 64 percent of them were working in Wuhan.
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