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Where do you get the idea that the worst case scenario is similar to the number of deaths from smoking? If half the US population gets the virus and 1% die, th
by not2b 7y ago
Where do you get the idea that the worst case scenario is similar to the number of deaths from smoking? If half the US population gets the virus and 1% die, that' 1.5 million deaths. But if half the population gets the virus all at almost the same time, hospitals run out of ventilators, and maybe it will be 5% deaths. That's 7.5 million deaths.
- jMyles 7y agoI appreciate that we're all doing our own thinking and napkin math here, but the people who crunch these numbers all the time are talking about worst-case estimations much, much lower than that. Here are a bunch of solid papers on the topic: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/covid-19#bibliography&1-4 http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/covid-19...