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Showing Original Post only (View all)Death perspective for US Coronavirus [View all]
Current mortality rate over many weeks across many populations stands at 3.74%
If ONLY 15% of Americans contracted it (roughly 50 million) that would equate to 1.87 million fatalities
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We're far behind any industrialized country on testing. We're at 20k in 1 month, SK does 10k a day
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#7
Of course a 40% to 70% infection rate implies a lot of younger people being affected
The_jackalope
Mar 2020
#22
China dragged people from their homes and forcibly tested them while 750 million stayed home.
LaurenOlimina
Mar 2020
#55
+1, Fauci wouldn't happy path variables in his models hopefully he doesn't want to get hopes up
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#21
I wish people could understand this has only been growing in Iran/Europe since Feb
SiliconValley_Dem
Mar 2020
#37
The China curve is because all other provinces went into forced lockdown
SiliconValley_Dem
Mar 2020
#49
Exactly. Fortunately, we have the ability to dramatically ratchet those numbers down
SiliconValley_Dem
Mar 2020
#45
Hopefully some of those "promising" antivirals will be effective on a large scale
Sapient Donkey
Mar 2020
#58