How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally

Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by hartator on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:23PM (#22902096)

> you could be looking at millions of deaths in the US alone

That's not true. Very worst case scenario will be 160,000 deaths based on our last data. But around 60,000 is more probable even we go out of lockdown right now.

Ref: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

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Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by Tainnor on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:04AM (#22907126)

notice the preceding clause in the sentence you quoted, "if not contained somehow".

The numbers you cite all assume social distancing measures, it says so at the very top (and also the forecast only goes to the end of August, there is no guarantee that the virus doesn't come back in winter or so, we saw this with the Spanish flu).

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