Infections
COVID-19: Approximately 207,518 cases worldwide; 7,324 cases in the U.S. as of Mar. 18, 2020.*
Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.
Deaths
COVID-19: Approximately 8,248 deaths reported worldwide; 115 deaths in the U.S., as of Mar. 18, 2020.*
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.
The COVID-19 situation is changing rapidly. Since this disease is caused by a new virus, people do not have immunity to it, and a vaccine may be many months away. Doctors and scientists are working on estimating the mortality rate of COVID-19, but at present, it is thought to be higher than that of most strains of the flu.
-John Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering
I'm sure it's been said in this thread but I'm not reading through 9 pages of it. How's come none of this shutdown stay home BS has been done before? This Flu disease thing looks pretty stout, looks like it's been around a while, our bodies have built up immunity, AND there's a vaccine!!! But human beings are losing their lives every year because of it. COVID-19 has a LONG ways to go to catch up. If there was something else going on in the world to keep the media occupied this wouldn't even be an issue. The real virus is Media Diarrhea and there's no known cure. I use to think I'd be dead before this country is completely ****** but after seeing this fiasco unfold, the sad truth is I was wrong.
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