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A recipe for living with COVID-19

A recipe for living with COVID-19 As the days pass by, an eerie feeling is pervading within our hearts – that Corona is here to stay. The feeling darkens when the thought of absence of any preventive vaccine comes to mind. The only solace comes from the fact that the fatality rate is low, though we are misinformed about it because what we are being told is the percentage of deaths to those infected and not to those in whose case, the treatment has terminated! In India, 1,82,490 cases have been confirmed as Corona positive till 8 AM today (31-5-20) out of which 5186 have died, 86,970 have recovered and remaining 90,323 are still active and undergoing treatment. Hence, we are told the fatality rate as 2.84% (i.e. dead as a percentage to total confirmed cases) But it is misleading. In fact, the treatment has been completed in respect of 92,156 persons out of which 5186 died and 86970 recovered. Thus, the effective and true mortality rate is 5.63%. But what is dreadful is no...