06-26-2020, 10:09 AM
(06-26-2020, 09:54 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Where are you getting your data?
From what I've seen, there have been 2,505,196 reported cases in the US with 126,798 deaths. That's a 5.0% death rate.
The death rate for the flu is typically around 0.1%.
Even if you're talking straight number of deaths, the US suffers between 10,000 to 60,000 deaths a year from the common flu. COVID-19 has already claimed more than double the top end and we are only in June with cases surging again.
So please explain how you think it's no more dangerous than the common flu?
And I'd love to hear the "it is a hoax" people explain how the US ... with 4.5% of the world's population ... has almost 30% of the world's COVID-19 deaths. I hope he doesn't say "overcounting" because with almost 500,000 worldwide deaths and that's not including more from China ... which thay probably have), 4.5% of half-a-million is 22,500 and NO AMOUNT of overcounting can get to the 122K deaths that we have.
