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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by abstractbarista on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:47PM (#22548157)
The thing is, that infrastructure already prepared yearly for the flu. They have capacity designed around it. It is "normal" for thousands to die from the flu yearly, and nobody says anything. (Except that you should obviously be vaccinated.)
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by tigershark on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:46PM (#22548952)
If this will reach the same infection numbers as the flu the deaths in US would be many millions. Do you think that it’s the same thing?
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by mcguire on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:15PM (#22549338)
There were an estimated 44,000,000 flu cases in the US in 2017-2018. Assuming a worst-case-with-current-data death rate of 3.5%, that's about 1,500,000 deaths. Not millions.
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