There have been 41 deaths blamed on the coronavirus in the US.
There have been 1,864 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US.
At least 23 of those deaths were at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington.
The Life Care Center has gone from 120 residents down to 60 in the past month.
The current mortality rate in the US is 2.2%.
If you subtract the Life Center deaths the total goes down to .9%.
The US economy plunged 8,351 points this month over the coronavirus news and 41 confirmed deaths.
At the same time there have been 222,000 confirmed flu cases in the US this season.And there have been 22,000 flu deaths this flu season.
This chart comes from the CDC.
It shows weekly flu numbers and seasonal flu numbers.
So far this flu season there have been over 1 million flu tests given.There have been over 22,552 confirmed flu cases.
There have been 22,000 flu deaths this season.
Don’t flash this around; the Democrats will be stirring up a panic over the flu next.
There’s no evidence that COVID-19 even has a season. The rate of transmission may be unaffected by the advent of warmer weather. It appears to be both more easily transmitted than influenza, and to have a higher mortality rate. We don’t know how widely it may already have spread because of the length of the incubation period, because it may be transmitted by those who have yet to show symptoms, and because we haven’t done enough testing to provide the data needed to make those calculation. We can certainly observe what has happened and is happening elsewhere.
If some media coverage has been alarmist, Gateway Pundit’s article is the other side of that same coin. It’s leading people toward irresponsible and potentially dangerous conclusions.
I’m not sure what the utility is in comparing the Corvid-19 to the Flu. Apples and oranges.
We’ll get through it, no problem. But the current figures are about 3.4% mortality rate, and the estimated global death toll
The estimates by Mike Osterholm (U of Minn) on Joe Rogan are 2-3% mortality rate, with an estimate of approx. 480,000 worldwide deaths. This is worst case, and it can be curtailed by our actions.
The above figures would be significant if the Corvid-19 was just gone today. But it’s just getting started.
This is something I just don’t agree with some conservatives on, though I reject the jackass claims of the Dems about Trump’s response. This is a natural disaster, and we all have our part to play.
@Nathan Blue: But the flu is a seasonal yearly thing.