[nhwingut]

US death rate will be very similar to the flu.

[3boysdad]

I wonder how long it will take fear-filled-fearmonger’s to attack this statement?

[ecomcon]

US death rate will be very similar to the flu.

I agree

[Dr. Pritchett]

Either way: Trump acted tyrannically when he didn’t need to, OR he didn’t react strongly/early enough to stop it. Don’t let Trump get a victory.

[DEPcom]

"US death rate will be very similar to the flu. "

From Article: " 0.1% of people who are killed by the flu. When undetected infections aren't taken into account, the Lancet study found that the coronavirus death rate was 1.38%, which is more consistent with earlier reports."

With President Trumps actions (closing the border, pushing social distancing, educating the public) and if the American public takes this serious, the death rate could be very similar to the flu.

I think it will be anywhere between 0.2% to 0.7% death rate, it all depends on the Americans. It could be as high as 1.5% if the people keep throwing politics into it.

It is up to Americans to how successful President Trump team will be to keep this similar to the flu.

[ThunderSleeps]

The real trick is getting decent numbers on how many people have covid-19 but are not showing any symptoms or only very mild symptoms. In the first case, they'd have no reason to get tested. In the second, they might avoid a Dr. visit on general principles (some of us only go to a Doc if we're really sick or really injured), or simply because they fear getting infected - they think they have a seasonal cold, allergies, the "normal" flu...

I believe if we can ever get some "real" numbers on people infected we'll find out that this is bad, but no-where near as bad as it has been made out to be. It probably is at least as bad as a very bad flu season, but I'll bet you a full roll of TP it is not much different than SARS.