Originally Posted by atpcliff

The current death rate due to the Cvirus in the US (26Apr2020) is 0.32.
Based on the US flu death rate of 0.1, and the average number of flu deaths per year (over the past 9 years, of 37,400), we should expect about 120,000 US deaths in this 12 month cycle.
The Swedish death rate as of 26Apr is now at 0.69. If we had the same rate as Sweden, we would expect about 260,000 US deaths in the 12 month period.
We had about 50,000 Americans die in combat during the Vietnam War, which lasted about 30 years. We have had 55,415 Cvirus deaths to date, so we are already over the Vietnam War casualty number...in a few months...