(stolen from FReeper knarf)
Posted on 03/27/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Today Coronavirus has killed 1,307 people in the USA. Think about that...
It was not an election year with the Democrats out of the White House.
Because we have a flu shot to contain it. We have nothing for China flu.
(stolen from FReeper knarf)
With all the passing of the movers and shakers from Coronavirus, and the well known data on the flu, I wondered why we never once hear of a celebrity dying of the flu, current or past, news or WIKI. I finally figured out that the deaths are listed as pneumonia or whatever developed subsequently. Small point, I guess.
Makes one wonder if the China Virus got here last year, yes?
Don’t give the government any ideas about shutting down the country every flu season.
This article is from Fall 2018, so it is referring to the 2017—2018 winter (two years ago).
Words right out of my mouth.
Not every flu season. Only the ones they can exploit for political gain.
I am sorry, which mover and shaker or celebrity died from the latest Chinese super virus. I must have missed something.
Haha...I think THAT cat is already out of the bag
I understand that Italy has been hit hard by COVID-19. At least, Northern Italy. For a disease that transmits easily and caseloads growing exponentially, I guess I don’t understand why Southern Italy doesn’t seem to have much of a problem yet. Another thing that makes no sense to me.
2 weeks.
Apparently the number of cases is increasing in the South.
Finally we have proof of the deadliness of Covid19 from NYC.
NYC had 53,006 deaths from all causes in 2014
NYC had 2,220 deaths from Influenza and Pneumonia in 2014
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/New-York-City-Leading-Causes-of-Death/jb7j-dtam
Another rough estimate for number of deaths in NYC every year,
from Quora - 1 death every 9 minutes, 158 per day, 57,000 per year
https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-in-New-York-every-day
So roughly 158 people die in NYC every day and 2220/100 = 22 die every day of influenza and pneumonia every day assuming a 100 day flu season.
For overall deaths there is very little seasonality. March is 108% of the average death rate for the year.
http://www.legacy.com/news/culture-and-trends/article/yes-its-true-more-people-die-in-january
90% of NYS deaths from Covid19 so far were in New York City
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/new-york-coronavirus-cases-updates.html
There were 100 Covid19 deaths in NYS 3-26 (and 90 yesterday) so about 90 in NYC - compared to 158 deaths from all causes on an average day and 22 deaths from flu on an average day during flu season.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Therefore Covid19 is at least 4 times as deadly as the seasonal flu. And all restaurants and bars have been closed for 2 weeks. Let’s see how many die today.
Re: No vaccine for COVID-19.
Explain that to the Germans.
83 million people.
Stuffed inside an area half the size of Texas.
Just 50 miles from the COVID-19 death camp of northern Italy.
Yet, Germany has a “Case Fatality Rate” of 0.6%.
They are definitely doing something right!
Northern Italy has far more Chinese immigrants who make regular trips to China working in their apparel industry.
Well, that would be logical. On the other hand, I think data from Italy as whole indicates that cases are barely increasing at all. They seem to have crested the wave.
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