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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by 101404 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:55PM (#22621651)
> ... up to ... may have ...

Now, that's some hard facts you have there!

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by nostromo on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:02PM (#22621728)
If you want rigid certainty, you're not going to find it in epidemiology so you should turn back now.

Nobody knows how many people died from H1N1 in 2009. The CDC has only estimates and the range is huge:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/pandemic-global-estimates...

And that is why I used the words I did.

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