Posted on 04/29/2020 8:47:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 60,000 on Wednesday and the outbreak will soon be deadlier than any flu season since 1967.
America's worst flu season in recent years was in 2017-2018, when more than 61,000 people died, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The only deadlier flu seasons were in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 died and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died, according to the CDC.
The United States has the world's highest coronavirus death toll and a daily average of 2,000 people died in April of the highly contagious respiratory illness Covid-19.
The first US death was recorded on February 29, but recent testing in California indicates the first death might have been on February 6, with the virus circulating weeks earlier than previously thought.
In early March, the prospect that the new coronavirus would kill more Americans than the flu was unthinkable to many politicians who played down the risk of the outbreak.
US President Donald Trump tweeted on March 9: "So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"
The United States, the world's biggest economy, announced that economic output collapsed 4.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year as Covid-19 hit, the steepest decline since the Great Recession of 2008.
More than 3 million people have been infected worldwide, with the global death toll from the virus exceeding 220,000. The US alone has more than 1 million confirmed cases.
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60,000 deaths was Fauci’s estimated LOWER END of deaths based on his revised model a few weeks back.
Has anyone died of anything else?
flu season? I thought this wasn’t suppose to be called a flu?
Did they shut down the entire nation in 1967? Lock up it’s citizens without due process and realize the criminals?
How many people were declared virus victims without actually being tested?
Yes but they are counting them as presumed covid.
We get our news and our Corona from South China Morning Post?
We are being denied our freedoms for 60,000 deaths! It isn't the infections that are the issue but the deaths and they do not justify this unconstitutional shut down!
Did America shut down and destroy its economy in 1967?
Asking for a friend.
>>outbreak on track to be deadlier than any flu since 1967
Bullsh!t
when you see a # of 51,000 that is the middle value between low and high flu estimates.
we’ll never know. They didn’t count all deaths in the past and are still guesstimating today .
since when is the china post (via msn no less) a valuable and informative news source.
I was out in brooklyn last night and there were a LOT of people at the parks and beaches.
Only half wearing masks.
I guess we will see if the virus rate shoots up in NYC in the next few weeks
There is a political reasoning behind pumping up the US deaths and keeping the reported deaths worldwide at a minimum
It’s not like a country like Botswana has a record of accurate reporting on... anything
they are using it as justification to stuff ballots in November.
Ok- Now subtract the regular flu deaths.
Thank you South China news, and what was the name given to that flu, I believe it was the Hong Kong Flu.
Yeah, we don’t need a new “ flu” on top of the ones we already have.
Too many killed by the flu, but some say “that’s fine” to double it.
I’m hoping that a treatment for all virus infections comes from this out=break.
Wou;d mean a great benefit to the race.,
That is my question I want to know who the hell has died of ANYTHING except CV19!!!
In Vegas today it hit 100F.
The virus will be killed by warm wx.
Stopped reading after that.
No, 100k was the lower end of that model.
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