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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:30PM (#22195900)
The 3% number is with severe cases (aparently 20% of the cases) treated in ICU. What happens when you ran out of ICU beds?
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:26PM (#22195838)
You mixed up your numbers. 3-5 Mio SEVERE CASES, not overall infections.

> Worldwide, these annual epidemics are estimated to result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness, and about 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...

> The flu has resulted in 9.3 million to 49 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. Each year, on average, five to 20 percent of the United States population gets the flu.

https://www.healthline.com/health/influenza/facts-and-statis...

Let's assume 10 mil Corona cases in US (like flu lower bound), with 2% mortality. That's 200k deaths. If we assume 49 mil cases (flu higher bound), it's 1 mil deaths just in US.