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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not 2% of the population... *bangs head against wall*[/quote]

Ok it's 2% of 40-70% of the population.  Let's call it 50% of the population that will get infected.

That's 115,000,000 people. Thus 1,500,000 dead of the disease and 20,000,000 hospitalized, displacing all the other critical patients, who also die at a higher rate. It's on the order of magnitude of 2,000,000 deaths at a minimum if we don't slow it down.[/quote]

Its more complicated than that.

The virus disproportionately kills elderly people with existing health problems. 650,000 Americans die of heart disease every year. There would be a big overlap between coronavirus deaths and heart disease deaths in a regular year as those are the demographics being killed off by the virus.

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Sure it's more complicated but the conservative estimate of only 50% of the population getting infected should take care of overaccounting for any overlap.[/quote]

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