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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by tptacek on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:49PM (#23026664)
Why are you moving the goalposts? We're discussing US mortality figures, and in the US we have good stats on this, and they average out to ~36k fatalities annually.
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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by arcticbull on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:57PM (#23026717)
I'm not moving any goalposts, goalposts remain in tact. And I'm using the same source: both numbers come from the CDC. So for your reading pleasure:

"It's killed 20-60K people per year, each and every year you've been alive in the US. So far, COVID is at about a year's worth of a bad flu deaths in the US -- let alone a lifetimes -- and are approaching 25%+ of the population of some high profile cities infected. Once it gets to 70% or so, it's most likely going to burn itself out due to herd immunity."

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