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To: Claude Cormier who wrote (59504)	3/1/2020 11:29:06 AM
From: benwood	Respond to of 60926

Historically speaking, the lethality of this virus is about 14x worse than typical year Influenza (0.7% versus 0.05%). The 0.7% is the non-Wohan region, latest cases in China with better treatment. Spanish Flu in '18-19 had a lethal rate of 8-10 percent, or ~12-15 times worse than COVID-19. I don't think I realized how bad that one was. It infected 27% of the entire world's population and killed 40-50 million people. Since Jan 1st, 1 US death from COVID-19. Likely a few thousand from Influenza. Nearly 4000 deaths from guns already. 3-4k from car crashes. This is a pretty serious virus, but I can't help but think some of the alarm is to ward off the inevitable lawsuits, like 'you should have closed the school but didn't.' Hopefully if the death rate can be muted closer to a regular year's influenza, maybe the hysteria may die down. Or maybe it won't...