Glug I am predicting 1.5million deaths for the us on current trend. When sick poor people cant get help they are bound to infect others.
Dwell on this you fools, no worse than the flu how ignorant.One gauge ofa virus is how contagious it is. The flu has an infectiousness measure (or R0)of only about 1.5, meaning that each sick person infects on average 1.5 others.In contrast, Covid-19 without social distancing appears to have an R0 ofperhaps 2.5.
A second gauge of a virus is howoften infected people must be hospitalized. With the seasonal flu that’sroughly 1 percent; with the coronavirus, estimates range from 5 percent to 20percent.
A higher R0 and higherhospitalization rate conspire to wreak havoc. A single person with the flu canresult in the infections of 386 other people over two months, and a handfulwould be hospitalized. But in that same period one Covid-19 patient could leadto the infections of 99,000 people, of whom nearly 20,000 might need to behospitalized.
