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Old 03-10-2020, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by texaspilot76 View Post
Do a google search, pick your source. Many articles explaining how flu deaths far eclipse Covid-19.
Sure the total numbers do. Not the percentage. The flu mortality rate is about .001%, the covid mortality rate is currently not fully known but based on public numbers is 2+%. CDC said it could be as low as 1.4% which is still 14X greater than the flu. Just to help your math if this virus infects as many as the flu there will be a minimum of 250,000 deaths on the low end....not encouraging panicking but it definitely needs to be taken extremely seriously.
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