CNN: 80,000 dead from flu in 2017. Dont recall shutting America down
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Deadliest in 40 years, yet no one blinked an eye.
bUt tHis oNe iS diFfeReNt!!
bUt tHEy hAd a VaCcine FOr flU
The fact that there IS a vaccine for flu and it got that bad makes it worse.
Sort of. It's a vaccine for a couple of strains. It's always a crap shoot as to whether the selected strains are the ones that fire up every season.
Blink an eye? I didn't even hear anything about it!
That's not how mortality is calculated though. I watched a video by a Stanford professor of disease conducted by the Hoover Institute.
He said that the current case totals only count for people who tested and had Covid 19 at the time who tested, but not for all the people who HAD Covid 19, were asymptomatic or may have thought it was the flu and recovered on their own.
The only way you get that data is through testing a wide population for antibodies that the immune system creates to fight the virus.
He said that for Flu, the CDC assumes that for each person who tests positive for the Flu, there are 80 out there who had the virus and did not test.
The test for antibodies are occurring right now and he won't have the estimates for the total case volume until later this month. Nobody has this data at the moment. But he says that he thinks the mortality is along the lines of 0.10%.
Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis, with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Wd5urg0
Either way, the mortality for Corona will only go up. So the flu will still have an average of 10,000 per month, but he Corona could be in excess of 20,000. I think it's important to remember that Trump is doing his best. As more facts come in, we have a clearer picture, but it's difficult to figure this out on the fly.
Well of course it looks worse, but we both know there are far more than 550,000 people that have/had Covid-19 so it's simplistic to say the death rate is 550,000/22,000...it will end up much closer to Flu mortality
There's also more people that have the flu than those who have symptoms. The actual number Corona related deaths do seem to be high, and those numbers are pretty straightforward. So the older crowd should be thankful that we're pushing for the quarantine.
I guarantee you if you're a 78 year old man and you die of a heart attack, it's counted as coronavirus if they test positive, even if the coronavirus played no part in it.
People who are already dying sometimes will get a flu and die, it's very common. It's just that their immune system can't handle it from age. If it's not the flu it'll be something else shortly down the road.
80+ people die from honeybee and wasp stings a year. Lets shut the world down.
"A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. " - FEB 22 2018 CNBC