[AppyPappy]

Here is the national mortality rate over the last few days
1.94%
1.77%
1.62%
1.48%
1.33%
1.29%
1.36%
1.27%
1.42%
1.45%

If we go back to work and only 10 million people get this disease, we are talking 1.3 million people dead

[Typelouder]

10,000,000 x 1.3% (0.013) = 130,000, not 1.3 million.

[Pres Raygun]

Baloney. Due to our government’s incompetence, we don’t have enough testing kits to accurately know what the real mortality rate is. We are currently only testing those who are gravely ill, first responders and apparently celebrities. I have two colleagues who came down with a fever last week, who can’t get tested for Covid-19, because they are not sick enough or famous enough to qualify for testing. There may be 10-20 X the number of cases reported, which would put the mortality rate closer to common flu strains, which can kill up to 80,000 per flu season.

[Sequoyah101]

I won’t pile on the correction.

Is that expressed as a % of the entire population?

[gogeo]

Check your decimal place...