Current Events > The virus could kill a million people in the US.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/health/coronavirus-uk-model-study/index.html

"A study by UK epidemiologists predicts that attempts to slow, or mitigate -- rather than actively halt, or suppress -- the novel coronavirus could overwhelm the number of intensive care hospital beds and lead to about 250,000 deaths in the UK and more than a million in the United States during the course of the current pandemic."
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For perspective, consider the following mortality rates in the US as -is...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

"Deaths and Mortality
Data are for the U.S.

• Number of deaths: 2,813,503
• Death rate: 863.8 deaths per 100,000 population
• Life expectancy: 78.6 years
• Infant Mortality rate: 5.79 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

• Heart disease: 647,457
• Cancer: 599,108
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
• Alzheimers disease: 121,404
• Diabetes: 83,564
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173"

People are still partying it up for Spring Break especially in places like FL. It wouldn't surprise me if we actually did reach those numbers.

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b-b-but it's just the flu bro

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what do those black dots mean ?

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so is it saying that people can die from causes other than the Coronavirus, but because health care would be stretched so thin due to it, people who might not have died otherwise would end up likely dying?

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