Show HN: Compare Covid death probabilities to skydiving and other activities

Show HN: Compare Covid death probabilities to skydiving and other activities(death-proba-website.appspot.com)

8 points by repied 6 years ago | 3 comments

Mine was estimated at .007% which it said was equivalent to: 14 dives of scuba diving

Is scuba diving really that dangerous? Curious where you get the data from.

repied 6 years ago | |

Hi, the data is coming from the wikipedia page linked at the bottom. I haven't tried to check if the data was correct or not. But for scuba diving, the page refers to a study by British Sub-Aqua Club. "UK Diving Fatalities Review" and states that there are 5 'micromort' per dive, which means 5 death for one million dives, which is a frequency of death per dive of 0.0005%.

repied 6 years ago |

Utra-simple app telling for instance that a 40-49 male, if infected, has probability of dying equal to 75 jumps of skydiving