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5. I hope I am wrong but coronavirus could be a real hammer

Reply to Loki Liesmith (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:04 AM

Mar 2020

rough calculations by an idiot (me)

330,000,000 (US Population) x .40 (low end of the infection rate) x .03 (3% lethality rate) = 3,960,000 deaths

I hope I am wrong and that "they" are able to make a vaccine, develop good treatment protocols and
that the economy doesn't take too big a hit but ?????

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