How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?

Re:How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United ... by revicon on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:04PM (#23827471)

I don't think your death rate analogies match the data. Here's the current day by day COVID death rates going back to Feb 1st.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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Re:How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United ... by Eric_WVGG on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:10AM (#23841233)

I was trying to make the point is that “1%” doesn’t sound like a lot, but is actually a huge number when you’re dealing with a commodity as supposedly important as human lives.

There are certainly all kinds of nuances and unknowns to the survival (and partially-survived) rates. Those idiots sayin “only 1% of blah blah” are the ones I take issue with.

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