> Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. That's literally the point. If the U.S. has 330M

> Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. That's literally the point. If the U.S. has 330M people and 30k flu deaths per year, then all else being equal one would expect that what China reports as 144 deaths is really 120,000. Which means that if Corona virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people who have died of the flu (per China's reporting), one would expect that it's really killed 936,000. Obviously that's very simplistic, but that's basically why people are worried -- no one knows what the real numbers out of China are, so that kind of back-of-the-napkin math is about the best we can do right now.