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I'm not an epidemiologist. Anyway, I looked up the most recent CDC flu death estimates for 2018-2019[1]: 34157 dead from 35520883 infected, let's see how much
by sarabande 7y ago
I'm not an epidemiologist. Anyway, I looked up the most recent CDC flu death estimates for 2018-2019[1]:
34157 dead from 35520883 infected, let's see how much hire a 2% corona virus mortality rate is above the normal flu mortality rate in the US:
>>> .02 / (34157 / 35520883.)
20.798596480955588
About 21 times higher.
[1]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html