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Coronavirus: Do the math.
by
Timroff
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(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
at
2:58:39pm PST
Much more deadly than Influenza. MUCH more.
There were 35M reported cases of Influenza in 2019. Out of those, 35,000 people died. It's terribly sad, but, in reality, it's only 1/10th of 1% of all cases. only 1 in 1,000 people.
If those Influenza cases had been Coronavirus cases, at the originally reported 2% Mortality rate, 700,000 people would have died. That's 2 of every 100 people who catch the virus.
Unfortunately, as of two hours ago (as of 3:45 PM EST, 27 Feb, 2020), there have been 82,550 cases of coronavirus reported worldwide, with 2,810 deaths.* That a 3.5% Mortality rate. Using our 35M flu cases, that means 1,225,000 people would have died last year.
Except that Coronavirus is predicted to be closer to a 8% or 9% Mortality rate, once all of the reported cases are "closed." Which means of the 35 Million who caught the flu last year, 2.8 Million of them could have died.
THAT is why the Coronavirus is so insanely dangerous. And it's why joking about how many people died from the flu since only a few hundred have died so far from Coronavirus is disingenuous and really fucking stupid. Math and Science, people. Use them. Don't be fucking stupid.
*
www.marketwatch.com/...