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That's ~670 9/11 attacks' worth of dead. ~350x the number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. ~10x the Civil War. ~3x the yearly heart disease deaths. ~1 dea
by Balgair 7y ago
That's ~670 9/11 attacks' worth of dead.
~350x the number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~10x the Civil War.
~3x the yearly heart disease deaths.
~1 death every 0.75 seconds
And this'll occur before June, and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!).
If this thing is anywhere near 1% mortality, the US really is in for a tough time.
Yeah, you're right, that is stunning
I really need to call my folks now.
- kilotaras 7y ago> and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!). No. Once you are one of those 60% you either die or get immunity.
- tsbinz 7y agoIt depends. The seasonal flu mutates enough between seasons that last year's immunity doesn't help you much. If we're lucky, this one doesn't do that, or it mutates in a way that symptoms aren't as severe (since causing the host to die or to be isolated in ICU is also bad for the virus, so there's evolutionary pressure towards less severe symptoms).
- sgt101 7y agoThis isn't flu, Corona's don't mutate in this way.
- mpol 7y agoThere are many weaker coronaviruses floating around that give the common cold. We are still getting the common cold from those, so apparently it mutates in a way that our immmunesystem can't stop it.
- bmn__ 7y agoIt's complicated. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036 https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036
- szemy2 7y agoThere have been an incident of someone getting infected twice. Although there seems to be no confidence in the results: https://www.wired.com/story/did-a-woman-get-coronavirus-twice-scientists-are-skeptical/ https://www.wired.com/story/did-a-woman-get-coronavirus-twic...
- szemy2 7y ago*has