Of all the deaths reported in the United States as of today, only 2 have been in patients under 18 years of age. Currently, our death rate (deaths/confirmed cases) has been as high as 2.3% and as low as 1.1% over the past 2 weeks. The President’s COVID-19 Taskforce estimated that as many as 1/1000 New Yorkers may have the virus. If this were projected to the entire United States (population 328,239,523), then the total number of COVID-19 would be approximately 328,239 and deaths from COVID-19 (1.8% death rate) at 5,909. Even if this ends up being wrong by 1,000 percent, the death rate would still be 59,000, i.e., within the range of the estimates for influenza deaths. You can look at it in another way. 98% of people who get COVID-19 fully recover!According to the John Hopkins University Chinese Wuhan Flu Death Tracker, The USA, as of 3 minutes ago, has 321,762 confirmed cases and 9,132 deaths. The author of the article needs to reassess his hypothesis and check his math.