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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by nitrogen on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:40PM (#23149282)
If I'm interpreting this[0] right, it looks like the normal death rate is 3.51 per 421 people per year. 1/421 in NYC (is that just COVID cases or all excess deaths?) is over much less than a year, so it seems fairly serious.

But I also had a truly "weird cold" go through my workplace early this year in SFBA, so I still have to wonder what that was.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+death+rate+*+421+pe...

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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by drran on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:31AM (#23151086)
Average death rate is 1/65-1/80 per year, or 1.5-1.2%, depending on country life expectancy.
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