Originally posted by Leonhard
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It's more lethal than the flu, and it is rather infectious.
I still have to check the normal level of flu/influenza death rates across the whole population. I was thinking this 0.025% in a bad flu season.
If you did not see the data on Dallas County from last month, the number of deaths attributed to covid were pretty much flat from April through June -- generally like 6-10 a day. This was about 0.01 percent death rate across the population.
We don't know how much more infectious this is. There was no systematic sampling of population -- except I remember a University of Southern California and a Standford study which I think showed low positive results representing low infection across the population. We just know there has been much testing -- much more testing than any other flu seasons. We could find that other seasons would have had just as high results if tested across the broad population.
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