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| Topic | Coronavirus 19: "An Incalculable Loss" |
| abaddon41_80 05/26/20 8:41:52 AM #37: | DoctorPiranha3 posted... The worst flu season in a while was 2018, and that was 80K deaths in a 6 month timespan. So that's factually wrong, Covid has been much deadlier. Worldwide, the flu kills an estimated 291k to 646k people annually. I am not just looking at numbers in the US. umax555 posted... I hope that's a good thing, but it's also Memorial Day weekend so reporting might be down quite a bit. Deaths do seem to be trending down, but new cases have been pretty steady these last couple weeks after they had been decreasing prior to that. Hard to say which direction things will go in the coming weeks. Overall cases are going to continue to increase but that is due to an overall increase in testing. Considering that anywhere from 35-50% of people are completely asymptomatic, an increase in testing is going to catch more cases. Providing the infection rate remains constant, an increase in testing is going to result in an increase in confirmed cases. The CDC just changed their CFR estimate from 3% to 0.3%. --- I HATE ALEX SMITH ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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