COVID-19 will probably kill ~350,000 people in one year. (It has
killed 250,000 in 10 months.) <<
where do you get those numbers from?
according to ->
https://masterinvestor.co.uk/economics/journal-of-the-plague-year-xi-when-the-cure-killed-more-than-the-pestilence/
Moreover, the mortality figures are now suspect. Thousands of
coronavirus deaths recorded by the ONS were not caused by Covid-19. In
September, the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University
found that coronavirus was not the main cause of death for nearly one
third of the fatalities recorded in July and August who had Covid-19 on
their death certificates.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Jed Rothwell" <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
To: "Vortex" <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, 20 Nov, 20 At 14:40
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Good news about the pandemic at last
Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com <mailto: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.
