[Team Cuda]

2009 Swine Flu Deaths in the US - 3,433
2003 SARS deaths in the US - 0
1968-1969 Hing Kong Flu Deaths in the US - ~100,000
1957-1958 Asian Flu deaths in the US - ~116,000

COVID-19 Deaths in the US - 165,083
That’s the number as of August 8. We’re still racking them up at a 1,000 a day average, so the final number will be (much) higher. And that’s with significantly better health care than we had in the 50s and 60s.

Make your own judgement, but I believe the numbers show that this outbreak is significantly more dangerous than the previous ones you cited.

[MinorityRepublican]

What was the population of USA in 1968-69? 1957-58?

[cherry]

you know very well that there are tons of stories about how they are coding anybody who hits the hospital as covid....it pays more money to be a covid admission.....

so numbers can not be trusted....

anecdotally, in my neck of the woods, life is going on...no one seems very concerned at all...

[Fiji Hill]

1957-1958 Asian Flu deaths in the US - ~116,000

In 2020, our population is about twice what it was in 1957. So the death rate from Asian flu that year would be the equivalent of around 230,000 deaths today.

[Fiji Hill]

Spanish flu killed more people than did WWI. Yet although it was delayed, we still had a college football season.

[xrmusn]

1957-1958 Asian Flu deaths in the US - ~116,000
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Yes, I remember it VERY well....

Knew there was ‘something’ going on but in Aug 1957 the ship I was on and the rest of the Squadron departed San Diego and went straight into the ‘Jaws of Death’ visiting Japan, China, Philippines, Korea, Formosa etc

I don’t seem to recall ANY masks - at least among us, definitely NO PANIC, no jails emptied, no hunkering down, schools remained open and life went on.

Of course we weren’t blessed with all these medical geniuses we have today and maybe the reason we didn’t panic over this flu was because in our short lives (I was 17) had already lived through TB and Polio (I had both parents as RN’s (working in a sanitarium) so was probably subjected to all the ‘germs’ etc

I personally have NEVER taken a flu shot (well am sure the Navy had some concoction for us) and never had a ‘serious’ case of flu, still going about my business, don’t wear a mask etc etc etc

DON’T PANIC and FOLLOW THE MONEY.....

[SoCal Pubbie]

Go back and list your numbers as a percentage of the US population at the time. Your scary Covid-19 numbers will look a lot less impressive.

[John W]

1 death in Indiana per yesterday’s report and it covers more than 1 day I think. The newsreader almost cried at the low number.