Posted on 03/13/2020 3:26:54 PM PDT by USA Conservative
There have been 222,000 confirmed flu cases in the US this season. And there have been 22,000 flu deaths ...
Using those figures, influenza has a 10% fatality rate. 10% confirmed positive and hospitalized die.
Lots of confusion outside the industry, on the way the medical industry expresses statistics.
“Already out of date...
2,269 cases and 48 fatalities in the USA.”
I’m pleasantly surprised at the low death count, so far of course.
“Influenza has nowhere near the lethal rate as the ChiCom Virus.”
You have no idea what the lethal rate is.
Boy this is the best insight! That is what I love about FR I come here and read these brilliant statements.
Man, mind if I copy this one? Sooo true.
With a shortage of test kits we have no idea how many Americans have caught this virus. If the number of people with COVID-19 is quite high that means the kill rate is quite low.
The numbers are way off. There are many more than 220,000 flu cases. the death rate is not 10%
Hey! How dare ya! Goes against the narrative so beloved by some FReepers.
Just said the same thing to my husband. And Sue them out of business
Testing people that had symptoms....4% had COVID-19 and 96% had flu or a cold. From one of the Docs at the President’s press conference.
Something like 2-5 million. Many more than the flu.
How many in the US after an estimated two month exposure if not longer?
Didn't you say 48?
Stay focused here bro, we're talking about the United States........
Not sure where you got those #’s, but the CDC is reporting 35,520,883 “regular flu” cases for the current season with 34157 fatalities for a “fatality rate” of 0.096%.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
I’d still like to find out how many Americans lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens during the same period that 48 have died of the coronavirus. My bet is that it is at least twice as many, yet no hysteria from the media.
And if it is same at each nursing home that gets infected, that will be really, really bad. Sure, Kidd’s are fine, but say goodby to grandma.
2.5 weeks since “community spread” in the USA.
What, you don’t want cold-like symptoms for three days? Or are you afraid of getting the dreaded glass lung disease?
I’m not sure where the author is getting his numbers from, because the CDC statistics for the current seasonal flu I just looked at far different. Aside from that, one mistake that many commentators make is to compare an entire flu season to the mere toe of the Corona virus curve. For instance, the CDC statistics for the current flu season began October 1 and run through March 7. The Corona virus is at least as infectious as the regular flu with an infection rate that increases exponentially. We are barely one month into the Corona virus curve, and we can expect as many Corona virus cases in five months from now as have developed from the regular flu in the past five months. The scary part is when you compare the fatality rate of the regular flu with the fatality rate of the fewer Corona virus cases we have to this point. It is then clear that the Corona virus is many times more deadly, perhaps ten times more deadly, that the ordinary flu. If we assume a similar number of Corona virus cases in the five months from now, as we have had regular flu cases from October to now, we can foresee over two-hundred thousand deaths, which is similar to the toll taken here by the Spanish flu in1918.
Us old impaired folks who go down quick will do our part to help out the SocSec and Medicare funding shortfalls.
It really is doubling.
I am 60, in decent health, but have had H1N1 and week in hospital, and have persistent chest cough/congestion. Would self-quarantine if I could.
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