Posted on 04/16/2020 8:09:53 AM PDT by Factuality
Differences: COVID-19 and the Flu Cause COVID-19: Caused by one virus, the novel 2019 coronavirus, now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2. Flu: Caused by any of several different types and strains of influenza viruses.
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From the article
Infections
COVID-19: Approximately 2,076,015 cases worldwide; 639,664 cases in the U.S. as of Apr. 16, 2020.*
Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.
Deaths
COVID-19: Approximately 138,008 deaths reported worldwide; 30,985 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 16, 2020.*
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.
NYC flu deaths in 2014 (the entire year)
2,220
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/New-York-City-Leading-Causes-of-Death/jb7j-dtam
NYC Covid19 deaths as of 4-14-20 (all in the last month)
10,367
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-deaths-confirmed-probable-weekly-04142020.pdf
It’s just the flu LOL
Yeah...sucks to be in subway/mass transit/huge urban cities
Rich Thompson:
Denmark, Scotland and Germany have done thorough antibody testing in specific locals and found infection rates between 12 and 27 times higher than they thought and models had projected. And a majority of the people were either asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms. This means that the death rate might be wildly lower than is currently suggested, as low as 0.2 percent — which would be very near to the normal flu. It could be close to 1 percent, but that is seeming less likely now, and still way below the 3.4 percent the World Health Organization put out that was used in the Imperial College projections of death totals.
“It’s just the flu LOL”
You are all “LOL” over a needless worldwide depression that will cause much more suffering and death than this disease.
We really must study the NYC strain of COVID. Apparently while it kills the same ratio of people who are diagnosed with it as the Flu, it cures HIV, heart Disease and old age.
Obviously it’s not just a Flu, it’s the cure for American nationalism and will make The New World order possible while curing all disease.
Its not a Flu, it’s a scam.
“Obviously it’s not just a Flu, it’s the cure for American nationalism and will make The New World order possible while curing all disease”
Normally 1,050 people die per week in NYC, last week 6,107 or so died in NYC of Covid19 alone. The other deaths are still there. Nice try though.
Look at the links. If you just think the NYC Health Department is lying then there’s no point in continuing the discussion.
https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-in-New-York-every-day
Seriously, you are obviously not an American, you are a disinformation agent of another country. I am not sure if it’s China or Russia, but it’s not going to work.
More than .1% of New York City has already died of Covid19 - 10,000 out of 9 million! Even assuming EVERYONE in NYC has the disease, it obviously has a higher death rate than the flu. There is not a shred of evidence that all 9 million residents of NYC have the disease.
NYC Cases: 111,424
NYC Tests 199,273
Pct positive 55.9152519 %
Even 44% of those WITH SYMPTOMS, who are able to get a test, are negative for Covid19. It is obvious that those with symptoms are more likely to be infected than those with no symptoms.
If 56% of the city is positive then the mortality rate is at least .2% or twice that of the regular flu.
(10,000/(9000000*.56))=.2%
The deaths are far from over.
Those without symptoms can’t possibly have as high an infection rate as those with symptoms.
Therefore your stale argument from “Rich Thompson” who by the way is simply a random blogger who cites no data is bogus. He is a blogger who links to other bloggers, and they are all full of crap.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-deaths-confirmed-probable-weekly-04142020.pdf
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
In 2014 they had zero deaths from Corona 19. Your comparison means nothing.
During WWII we had years when the death rate from influenza was in six figures.
Dontry to reason with brokebackwood. He’ll call you a foreign agent of China or Russia.
Seriously you are wrong. In order to revise the death totals up 3000 in one day this week, where did the totals come from? Because the total shows, but where they came from didn’t.
Note the CDC death rates from all other sources take a precipitous dip during this Debacle.
This is scam, whether because they totally blew it and over reacted, or because they mean to destroy America intentionally. But the damage is overwhelmingly larger than the gains.
Kinda like accidentally Nuking a couple major cities and saying oops. Would have had less of an economic effect.
Lighten up, just because someone’s statements dont fit your world view it does not mean that they are secret agents of a foreign government. Unless of course you are a Democrat.
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