It's startling to watch people argue that #COVID19 is similar to influenza in terms of death rate. Using NYC as a strict lower bound:
13,536 confirmed COVID deaths
5,373 suspected COVID deaths
8,398,748 people TOTAL
= 0.16-0.23% of the TOTAL population dead
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I have been wondering a bit about my own sanity with all these numbers but I _think_ I’m reading this correctly.pic.twitter.com/2j7sf7igw6
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Weird, definitely not what I'm seeing. Their back-end data through Github says 18,491 deaths as of yesterday for New York
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