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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Dr Paul Mackey Retweeted Dr Paul Mackey
Making sure my math is straight. John Hopkins says New York County (popltn 8M) has 1752 deaths. Are the 13K deaths in greater New York (popltn 20M)? https://twitter.com/auscandoc/status/1256647585923690496?s=21 …https://twitter.com/auscandoc/status/1256647585923690496 …
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I think you're misreading there? 1752 is, I believe, for Nassau County, NY State. NYC data is directly available here https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page …
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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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