... yet, it doesn;t seem worse than seasonal flu. In fact there are more deaths with flu than covid...
From something I posted on another forum:
For the "it's just the flu" and "lots more people die in car accidents" crowd:
In NYC, over an average 30 day period, about 4400 people die. Over the last 30 days, over 9500 have. Far more than died even in September, 2001.
Of those ~5000 excess deaths, only about 3000 were officially counted as due to CV-19. Which means that the official tally is likely significantly low.
Think about this. The mortality rate in NYC is over double what it normally is. That means that CV-19 is killing more people in NYC than all other causes of death, combined.
Nationally last week, CV-19 was the second leading cause of death, behind only heart disease. (and not by much, 12,626 vs 12,392) Flu and pneumonia were about 1250, car accidents in a typical week claim about 600-650.
While social distancing is working to flatten the curve, the number of deaths each day is still rising. Imagine what it would be like if we had carried on with business as usual.