Originally Posted by
threeighteen
I prefer the term pragmatic... The death rate for anyone that is in good health and not of significant old age is something like 0.9% if they even contract the disease, and the epidemiologists are estimating only 40-70% of the population will contract the disease. The majority of elderly people and those who are not in good health have similar odds of dying from the flu.
Have you done the math on your own numbers? That's well over 1 million dead using the 0.9% good health and not old category. Just here in the U.S.
I don't believe the CFR isn't that high for those under 50-60 though.