[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

2018 flu stats.............47 million cases......647,000 hospitalized.....67,000 died!!!

[Jane Long]

Yeah....if only this were JustTheFlu™

[datura]

67,000/47,000,000=0.014%

5,110/215,215= 2.37%

Yeah, just the flu.

Eat some more crayons.

[chris37]

Cool story, bro.

[Vermont Lt]

Way to pick the highest flu data in decades.

Bullshit numbers. Bullshit stats.

You guys continue to miss the story. You guys are counting raindrops while the storm rages.

This is the activity of fools.

[DEPcom]

"2018 flu stats.............47 million cases......647,000 hospitalized.....67,000 died!!!"

Wow that is high but no source. You are not far off, you must have gotten the data from a non CDC page.

2018 to 2019	35 million cases	490561 hospitalizations	34157 deaths
2017 to 2018	44 million cases	808129 hospitalizations	61099 deaths

Source: CDC Influenza Page

From USA Today: "The flu, a chronic killer that the nation has come to expect in yearly cycles – and the reason millions of Americans get flu shots – killed an estimated 508 people per day in the U.S. during the 2017-18 flu season, the nation's worst in the last decade, according to the CDC. This year's flu season has recorded an average of 383 deaths per day, CDC figures show."

The Coronavirus is just getting started. There was 1049 deaths yesterday. That is double the worst daily death toll of the Flu recorded in the USA.

More than 1,000 in US die in a single day from coronavirus, doubling the worst daily death toll of the flu

Did Coronovirus kill more people yesterday then Flu every kill in one day?

[Steve Van Doorn]

Taken from previous thread
"2018 flu stats.............47 million cases......647,000 hospitalized.....67,000 died!!!" -Trump Girl Kit Cat

I agree with you that this is virus has been an over reaction from the start. It IS little worse then the common flu in Italy and China because they received "Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)" both banned by the FDA in 2004 and 2012 which makes a mild infection life threatening decades later (given the cells have a long memory)

Why freepers are buying this media driven BS I'm still puzzled by. I can understand the Media driving this but why are freepers buying this. I don't get that yet.

I've talked with Jane Long about how she and many on this thread uses confirmed cases and claim this is the death rate when it's NOT.
The death rate is death/total contracted. It is NOT death/confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 is the symptoms from SARS-CoV-2)

To calculate the death rate you need figures on the total number of people that contracted the virus. Lets take the worst case Italy which received the ADE. From these reports that makes the SARS-CoV-2 death rate at approximately 0.2% to 1.3% of the population in Italy. Which is far worse then the flu. Again, this is Italy. It will be far less in the States, Germany, UK and South Korea which didn't receive ADE.

From this report "individuals have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 up to 28th March, representing between 1.88%and 11.43%of the population"
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Europe-estimates-and-NPI-impact-30-03-2020.pdf

From this report: We estimate 86% of all infections were undocumented"
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/24/science.abb3221