SARS-CoV-2 will kill a lot more people than those diseases. We are still early in the COVID-19 epidemic.

The death totals shown for those earlier epidemics are calculated by excess deaths. The COVID-19 figures that we have now are mostly confirmed COVID deaths with probable COVID deaths added for a few states. After COVID-19 is history, epidemiologists will look at excess deaths to get a truer picture.

The eventual US COVID-19 death total will dwarf those earlier diseases.

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Posted by IT_Dawg

Georgia

Member since Oct 2012

22103 posts

Posted on 7/11/20 at 2:48 pm to Whiznot

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We are still early in the COVID-19 epidemic.

So Pfizer is lying when they say they will produce 100M vaccines by end of year and over 1B vaccines next year?

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The COVID-19 figures that we have now are mostly confirmed COVID deaths

Haha. Right. We’ve been over this many times. They are calling it a COVID death if someone dies that is positive for it, without regard to their underlying condition that was already killing them.

I finally get it now. You’re an obese slob that was living in your mom’s basement with hypertension, diabetes and likely smoked Kools your whole life. You should just stay in your butt buddy bunker with djs until you die from a heart attack or lose your weight and get healthy. Best of luck to you!

This post was edited on 7/11/20 at 2:52 pm

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Posted by RD Dawg

Atlanta

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 7/11/20 at 3:07 pm to Whiznot

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The death totals shown for those earlier epidemics are calculated by excess deaths

What? I would guess the death estimates on both were way undercounted.We are far better a data gathering than any of those decades and far more probably would have died had we were warehousing the elderly like we do today...its reason #1 why Covid is so deadly in the US.

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