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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw Germany warned 2/3 of its population could get this. I’ve heard similarly high numbers for the US. That seems totally plausible to me, given that likely almost everyone has suffered from other coronaviruses like the flu or the common cold.

If the death rate on this thing comes down, say, all the way to 1%, that still seems like a crisis of Biblical proportions. 1% of half the world dying is 40 million people deaths—over half the number who died in WWII. Is that truly what we’re up against? Seems hard to fathom, but I guess I don’t know where the eject button from that scenario is[/quote]

About a third of unvaccinated people in the US get the flu every year, and of course with half of people getting the flu shot the community spread is somewhat limited. So yeah, it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that north of 1/3 of people getting this is possible. If there are roughly 300 million people in the US, 1/3 is 100 million, and 1 percent is 1 million. [/quote]

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