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It's too small of a sample size still. But I agree, sorry looked to quickly at the numbers.

Can we really compare the mortality rate of the seasonal flu which has a vaccine with COVID-19 which has no herd immunity or a vaccine? I don't think we can.

I'm trying to be optimistic here.

I do understand the numbers. 20% of the population has already had it, herd immunity is 40%.

This is HUGE news. If 20% of the USA already has this we are already close to herd immunity which is 40%. We can thus start slowly opening the country back up in stages and not have to worry about overwhelming the hospitals.

I need more. Give me a top 5 rundown.

This is great stuff, you have any more information?

Props to all the top 1% lobbyist negotiating for the lowly folk.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/gyms-reopening-lobbying-coronavirus-trump-phase-one/index.html

I would have been safer in New Zealand. New Zealand after 4 weeks lockdown has only 2.86 deaths per million and 2/3 of cases have recovered. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/04/coronavirus-6-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-new-zealand.html

Ventilators don't work In New York’s largest hospital system, 88 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators didn’t make it https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-ventilators-survival/?utm_source=reddit.com

This virus better help this country get in shape. It seems obesity is a pretty big factor in complications.

Moving to end of loan makes the most sense.

Yes they are but good luck getting a hold of a bank to have them cancel automatic deduction. 3-4 hour wait times on the phone and then disconnect.

Nearly my entire family is laid off at this moment. They are struggling to pay their bills and get unemployment. I basically had to do it for my mom as she is technologically illiterate. My dad has a house in the city in which he rents. Both tenants are refusing to pay rent for 3 months and my dads mortgage payment is still due. This mess has to end.

Trumps interview is hilarious. He's really confident this will have no affect on anything in the fall. He is delusional.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-conditioning-spread-coronavirus-restaurant-can-service-industry-open-again-2020-4?utm_source=reddit.com

Lets open up. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective

Early antibody testing suggests COVID-19 infections in L.A. County greatly exceed documented cases https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-testing-results-covid-19-infections-los-angeles-county/

This is important. Until now the first US #COVID19 death was thought to be Feb 29th, Seattle WA https://t.co/ziFslDHShl But now autopsy (and @CDCgov) confirmation of 2 deaths in California Feb 6 and 17th. >3 weeks earlier than previously known. https://t.co/9hRGJp0QZg — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 22, 2020

I've seen 2-3 large home parties in my neighborhood every weekend. Gyms, restaurants, movies, schools, work, are the 5 main places people transmit germs. If we open up all of those what happens?

Or as we found out yesterday there are 30 different strains and some are more deadly than others.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year. So far we're at 177,000 globally from COVID 19 in a 2-3 month window. Project that out annually and we're slightly above how many flu deaths we get in a bad season. Although you have to take into account social distancing and the entire world being on lockdown. They are also including basically anyone that has the virus as a death even if the result could have been something else. I think in the end this might not end up being too much more deadly than a bad flu season. If I had to guess, I would say COVID 19 is twice as deadly as the flu after all is said and done.

Never going to happen. If this last past June 1st we will see so many protests. No one will listen to stay at home orders in July/August in WNY. We get 3 months of summer here.

If restrictions lifted https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/federal-documents-more-than-300000-likely-to-die-if-restrictions-are-lifted/ Interesting article from 1929 depression that not many people died due to a bad economy. https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-expectancy There are no firm answers as to why Americans lived longer during the worst years of the depression, but scholars have made some suggestions. Take traffic deaths: Car use increased during the 1920s, and with it, so too did traffic-related deaths. One possible explanation for their decline in the 1930s is that, with higher rates of unemployment, there were just fewer people on the road. Fewer people could afford to own cars, too—as demonstrated by a famous picture (above) of a man trying to sell his car after losing his money on the stock market. There’s also research suggesting that during U.S. economic expansions, people smoke more, experience more stress and get less sleep. All these factors can have a negative impact on health. This could apply not just to the Great Depression, but other economic downturns in the 20th century. In 2018, Tapia co-authored another paper in the American Journal of Epidemiology that looked at data from 1985 to 2011, a period that covered three recessions. “What we found in this paper is that a number of things that are usually thought about unemployed people—well, apparently they are not true,” he says. Although the unemployed people in the study had higher levels of depression, they had lower blood pressure on average. They also did not smoke or drink more than employed people. In fact, Tapia notes that cigarette sales have historically risen when the economy is doing well and declined when it is not.