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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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