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I agree with your point in general, but this claim is overblown: > If we respond to COVID-19 like we do with the flu, we could see 150-200 million infected bec
by CydeWeys 7y ago
I agree with your point in general, but this claim is overblown:
> If we respond to COVID-19 like we do with the flu, we could see 150-200 million infected because it spreads more easily, those numbers would overwhelm the country, maybe have 20-35 Million dead
Even without any medical treatment at all, the death rate from COVID-19 is much lower than 13%. It might even be below 1%, once you factor in all the asymptomatic cases that we're only just starting to discover from blood antibody testing. So we're still talking about millions of deaths, which would be absolutely horrible enough in its own right, but we're not looking at double digit death numbers. COVID-19 fortunately isn't that deadly. Other diseases are though ... so in a way, as bad as this seems, we did still get somewhat lucky.