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Message Subject BREAKING: CDC estimates 29 million illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths!
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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That's the sort of numbers we can expect Covid-19 to eventually have, as they have warned us it will become like the seasonal flus, getting into everywhere every year.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78489110


CoViD-19, allegedly, has a death rate of 2%, although it's most likely a lot higher than that, but let's just use that number. From the numbers in the OP, they anticipate a flu death rate of .00055. CoViD's, by comparison, is .02. That makes CoViD about 40 times more deadly. If CoVid becomes endemic, as you mention and as we have seen very credibly predicted, and only spreads as fast as the flu (and most estimates put its R0 considerably higher than flu), that would mean 580,000 people will die from it every year given an annual infection rate of 29 million. Those most likely lowball numbers would make it the third leading cause of death in the US, just below heart disease and a very close third to cancer. If you tweak the death rate a bit and set it at just 3%, it blows past both of them to become the leading cause of death.
 Quoting: Revbo™


Very well thought out post. I well admit that the point of my post was to make sure folk realized those weren't Covid-19 numbers the OP was posting ;)
 
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