Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The CDC itself has said only about 6% of reported mortality could reliably > be attributed to the virus. No, it did not say that. You have misunderstood. Please stop spreading such misinformation. When you take that into account, the common cold probably has a higher > mortality rate. > The common cold (rhinovirus) kills only about a thousand people per year in the U.S., mainly people who are seriously ill from other diseases. Perhaps you meant influenza, which kills 20,000 to 30,000 per year. COVID-19 will probably kill ~350,000 people in one year. (It has killed 250,000 in 10 months.) Furthermore, influenza infects a much larger fraction of the population than COVID-19 has infected so far. If COVID-19 were to infect a similar fraction of the population, it would kill more than a million people. This is much worse than influenza.
