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[–]magnora7 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah and that coronavirus number is doubling every 3 days, so we're already up to 40k deaths in the few days since that chart was made: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

And in about 8 more days it'll pass the seasonal flu in deaths, and in about 6 days after that it'll be halfway down the list and pass traffic fatalities, and 6 days after that over a million people will be dead from it.

In total it's expected about 1-2 million people will die from this based on current growth patterns.

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Al Bartlett

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Right now it is the third on the list of fatalities for Americans. Cancer and heart disease are first and second. It is above everything else: upper respiratory infections, accidents of any sort, diabetes, strokes, everything.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow. 3rd of all things for March, or the whole year?

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that's for the week, or possibly a snapshot of one instance in time.