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tigershark on March 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

If this will reach the same infection numbers as the flu the deaths in US would be many millions. Do you think that it’s the same thing?

mcguire on March 11, 2020 [–]

There were an estimated 44,000,000 flu cases in the US in 2017-2018. Assuming a worst-case-with-current-data death rate of 3.5%, that's about 1,500,000 deaths. Not millions.

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