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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by viklove on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:31PM (#22695862)
It's hard to take you seriously when you take a range given by the CDC (38,000,000 – 54,000,000) and cherry-pick it as a specific figure that makes your position look stronger. You're arguing in bad faith.

Even according to the figures you've given from the CDC, the flu has a 0.1% death rate, which is nowhere near the 1.4% death rate COVID-19 currently has in the US.

No one is trivializing the flu, but it's silly to say we should relax w.r.t. COVID-19 because we're used to the flu. At a minimum it kills TEN TIMES as many infected people as the regular flu, even without considering vaccines.

Influenza is chump change compared to COVID-19.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by rootusrootus on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:19PM (#22696308)
> 1.4% death rate

We don't know that. At all. In the past these kinds of on-the-fly estimates during the spread of an infection have turned out to be overestimates. Sometimes by an order of magnitude.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by viklove on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:45PM (#22699499)
Source?
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