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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Flu killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 people through February per the CDC
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Not quite accurate, but reality is bad enough. Here are the statistics from CDC.
Keep in mind these numbers are for an illness for which we have a vaccine. We have been dealing with it for years, know what to expect and are ready for it with adequate ventilators and hospital beds for people who are sick with it and still 20,000 people have died.
COVID-19 illnesses are
in addition to the flu, and we have
no vaccine for COVID-19 and not enough ventilators and hospital beds to accommodate an outbreak. As Scott said, "There are no brakes for this thing yet which means if it gets rolling it's gonna pick up steam real fast."
"CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 34 million flu illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 20,000 deaths from flu."
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm