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Old 04-06-2020, 10:29am   #29
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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury View Post
as of Sunday night:

Covid-19

confirmed cases worldwide - confirmed deaths worldwide: 5.1%

confirmed US cases - confirmed US deaths: 2.8%
Q: And how do those numbers compare to the flu?

A: They don't, even though the media keeps saying they do. With the flu it's calculated using an estimated number of cases, which is a huge number, but it's calculated for this virus using only the confirmed number of cases. Why the difference?
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