re: US Chinese Virus Tracker - 466,299 Cases, 16,686 Deaths, 26,104 Recovered (4/10/2020)

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The healthcare system in America cannot be compared to that of Africa, Asia, South America, etc.

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The healthcare system in South Korea is about on par with the US and they have a mortality rate (with extensive testing) of like .6%, with the CDC expecting a covid mortality rate of up to 1% here, compared to .14% of normal influenza.
That means covid could kill between 4 and 7 times more than influenza, reasonably.

Assuming covid had a r0 equal that of the flu, theres an expected death toll of up to 250,000 people, based on influenza killing 34,000 in a normal year.

Those are not insignificant numbers.