It is a virus, no worse than the flu.
"By the way, the facts about COVID-19 vs Flue in the US - the lies Trump, Pense (saying flu kills 100k a year) and his uneducated masses is promoting:
Flu Deaths by season:
2015-2016 23,000
2016-2017 38.000
2017-2018 61,000
2018-2019 34,000
2019-2020 22,000
vs.
COVID-19 deaths year-to-date 2020 210,000 and rapidly rising.
Source: CDC and John Hopkins University
The fact-based world not the Trump alternative facts fantasyland.
https://terb.cc/xenforo/threads/thi...aced-the-fire-hose.725831/page-2#post-6828507
"...the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the [covid] mortality rate at 0.65 percent."
The United States already has the highest number of cases in the world and the most recorded deaths of any country. Though its 330 million people represent roughly 4.25 percent of the world’s population, the country has recorded just over 20 percent of deaths from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
According to a Johns Hopkins University analysis, which is updated daily, the case fatality rate in the United States was 2.8 percent as of Thursday. That compares with the CDC’s 0.65 percent estimated infection fatality rate — which includes confirmed cases plus an estimate of those who may not even know they have been exposed. The case fatality rate in the United States is much higher than in South Korea, Taiwan and Iceland, where it has been below 2 percent, but lower than in some other hard-hit countries, such as Iran and Brazil.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/09/covid-mortality-rate-down/
"One important thing to get straight here is exactly how dangerous seasonal influenza is. The fatality rate that has been cited most often (including
by me) is 0.1%, which happens to be about what you get if you divide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
estimates of U.S. influenza deaths over the past nine years by its estimates of symptomatic cases. But just as with the coronavirus, testing
has shown that many people infected with influenza viruses develop no flu symptoms. In a
Twitter thread from February that a reader pointed out to me this week, University of Oxford infectious disease epidemiologist Christophe Fraser estimated that the actual infection fatality rate (which I will refer to from now on as IFR) of seasonal influenza is 0.04%.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...rse-than-the-flu-blood-studies-say-yes-by-far