I'll bet that changes in a week...if not sooner.
Well, that was quick. Just got an alert that the first US citizen has died in Washington State.
Saw some interesting stats on FNC earlier today..
There’ve apparently been 18,000 or so flu deaths globally out of 32,000,000 infected. That’s around a .05% mortality rate.
CV has a mortality rate of ~3.5% IF you believe the numbers out of China, which no thinking person does. And, since they have every possible motivation to understate the numbers, the mortality rate is likely HIGHER than 3.5%.
That is something to be very concerned about. So, it really tweaks me off to see people keep downplaying this. We’re in the early stages of spread in the US. Can it be contained? Possibly, but idiotic politics and wide open borders, plus tens of thousands of people traveling daily do not give me hope that it will be. And IF it does spread widely here, everyone downplaying this compared to the flu is going to look very foolish..