https://twitter.com/keatonc33/status/1243023138465681413
“Today covid-19 killed more Americans than the flu and car crashes combined.”
The coronavirus mutates more slowly than the flu — which means a vaccine will likely be effective long-term
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-mutates-more-slowly-flu-011800790.html
Good news from serious pros...
That tweet is not sourced or referenced.
And is probably not accurate.
Confirmation the tweet is not accurate.
In the US average auto deaths are about 3,300 per day.
They were looking at averages, using 50k dead from the flu and 35k dead for car wrecks in a year. Comes to about 232 deaths per day for both.
I was just trying to find daily death numbers for the USA but couldn’t find anything simple that tracks it (help!?).
But I think yesterday there were 740 deaths, and now we are over 1000 deaths - so something like 260 deaths today.
Of course, the average number of car and flu deaths will still be 232 for tomorrow. Covid-19 deaths will be 300+ tomorrow :(.