re: Big Ten discussing start of college football season on week of Thanksgiving

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Covid is 3-4 times more deadly than the flu. You are correct it isn’t debatable

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Here is a link from the Cato Institue. Granted it si from March but it does a great explanation why, from a percentage standpoint, the per capita (meaning the number of deathes compared to the number of infectiosn) are overblown. While the article is from march, the science and theory behind it is still sound as the way people are infected and the way deaths and infection rates are counted has not changed.

Cato institute

Assuming the number of people who have reportedly died from COVID-19 is reasonably accurate, then the percentage of infected people who die from the disease (the death rate) must surely have been much lower than the 2–3% estimates commonly reported. That is because the number of infected people is much larger than the number tested and reported.