endoftheamericandream | COVID-19 is an extremely deadly virus, and nobody should be trying to
downplay the severity of this outbreak. By now, you have probably heard
a lot of people try to convince you that COVID-19 is not that dangerous
because the flu has killed far more people this winter. And that is
true. But what they aren’t telling you is that the death rate from the
flu is extremely low. Tens of thousands of Americans die from the flu
each year, but if this coronavirus spreads all over the planet the death
toll will be in the tens of millions. This coronavirus outbreak is
likely only in the very early stages, and if it becomes as widespread as
the flu, it will become a public health crisis unlike anything we have
ever faced in modern times.
After taking a look at the numbers, hopefully you will understand what I am trying to say.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced that the global death rate for COVID-19 is now 3.4 percent…
World health officials said Tuesday the case fatality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%.
“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press briefing at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. In comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected, he said.
I have a feeling that number will continue to go up, but for the purposes of this article let’s assume that number if accurate.
As for the flu, the CDC says
that there will be between 32 million and 45 million illnesses in the
United States during this flu season, and somewhere between 18,000 and
46,000 deaths.
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