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> If US alone has ~60k deaths from the flu a year That was one particularly bad season. It's usually in the 30k - 40k range. > that still works out to be muc
by vonmoltke 7y ago
> If US alone has ~60k deaths from the flu a year
That was one particularly bad season. It's usually in the 30k - 40k range.
> that still works out to be much more (1153 deaths per week)
That particularly bad season had ~45MM cases, so that was an average of 865k infections per week. 2019-nCoV is that 1% of that infection rate.