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We will never know.........North Korea, Russia, China & Iran could end up far worse.....but they will never tell the world the truth about their numbers.So .66% is the death rate based on this research that contains a lot of conjecture. Either way, a virus that is spreading this easily and quickly killing .66% of the people that get it is still a HUGE deal. I don't see how anyone doesn't get that.
That said, if you put your analytical cap on and really dig into the premise of this article, for them to say that only .66% is the true death rate while the 4% death rate are merely known cases, that assumes that there are 3.34% more cases of the virus throughout the whole population and it is not included in the total numbers, which seems like an absurdly high number on a global scale. It also assumes that every single one of the undocumented cases around the globe did not result in a death.
I need to analyze my math more, because I actually think my number in this analysis should be higher than 3.34%. It may be a number closer to 76% more unknown cases that did not result in a death, but my brain is too fried at this point of the day.
That said, regardless of any of this, there are 42,000 people that have died from this around the globe and counting, and we are merely at the beginning stages of this. The U.S. numbers will also start to skyrocket once the hospitals reach capacity and we run out of available ventilators, just as they have everywhere else.
What, at this point makes anyone think the United States' fate will be any different than any other country's? If anything, the stats show we are in store to be the worst out of everybody.