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demmiblue

(36,864 posts) Mon Aug 10, 2020, 10:20 AM Aug 2020

1 out of every 2,000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic has now died with COVID.

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My god.

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1 out of every 2,000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic has now died with COVID. (Original Post) demmiblue Aug 2020 OP

Which means that nearly every American Wednesdays Aug 2020 #1

And it's probably closer to 1 in 1500... RockRaven Aug 2020 #2

Wednesdays

(17,380 posts)

1. Which means that nearly every American

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 10:40 AM

Aug 2020

has, in their lifetimes, met at least one person who would eventually die of covid

RockRaven

(14,972 posts)

2. And it's probably closer to 1 in 1500...

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 10:49 AM

Aug 2020

During the time period when these 150K+ people have died of known or suspected covid, there have been 200K+ "excess deaths" (i.e. more deaths than the same time period last year, or the years before). With how bad the testing has been, how bad our health care system is at access/availability in general, one should assume some portion of those 50K+ unaccounted-for excess deaths are covid.

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