[JeanLM]

The only reliable statistic, and that is subject to review and adjustment, is the number of deaths. You have a body.

The only number of interest to me is the number of US deaths. Right now we’re at close to 300 total from covid 19 and it started in the first week of March.

The regular flu has clocked 4,400 this season and we’re still collecting bodies at the rate of 300 per week.
Hope they keep them separate.

If 19 is like the regular flu, and I think it is, it will peak in the 14th to 22nd week at between 500 and 1600 deaths per week. Then it will drop for another 10 to 20 weeks. That rate is normal for a flu virus.

[Vermont Lt]

It’s just the flu.

[Svartalfiar]

The only reliable statistic, and that is subject to review and adjustment, is the number of deaths. You have a body.

Unless, of course, you're China. Then all you have is a pile of ash, from who knows how many bodies. Oh, and a pile over there, but they died from "pneumonia", not the Wuhan virus. Oh, and yea, there's city blocks full of welded-shut doors, but all those people died from starvation, not the virus. Yup.