> If 40 million people in the US get Covid, as with the flu, it will probably kill between 500k and 1m people. This is a greatly, greatly exaggerated number b

> If 40 million people in the US get Covid, as with the flu, it will probably kill between 500k and 1m people. This is a greatly, greatly exaggerated number based on incomplete reporting. We cannot yet estimate the number of unconfirmed COVID-19 cases in the US. In healthy adults, the COVID-19 symptoms are no worse than the flu. The CDC uses projections to estimate the fatality rate of the flu every year, since actual hard stats are impossible to generate. Time will tell, but this so far seems nothing more than a media frenzy. Does anyone remember the Swine Flu? How about the West Nile Virus? What was the outcome of those media frenzies? How'd it turn out for all the people hoarding toilet paper and water bottles back then? > It swamps healthcare systems, as we saw so dramatically in China I don't think it's even remotely relatable to the US healthcare system, and the general health of the US population.