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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3476413, member: 199"] Yes, but you understate/overstate. It looks like this virus with a perfectly functional health system may kill at a rate of about 1 - 1.5 % which is ten times the normal rate for a bad flu season (0.13%.) And Flu season is spaced out over about six months relieving the health system of overload. If 10% of the US population (33 million in the US) in the next 2 months got this, the hospital system would be overwhelmed and the death toll would climb exponentially to the 3.5% that happened in Wuhan or even higher as the staff would have 3 or 4 or 5 patients waiting for the same respirator for every respirator in every hospital in the country and would start having to choose one of those patients with the best likelihood of surviving to give treatment to as the others died. Lombardy in Italy is not a backward country/region, but their ICU units were overwhelmed with only around 5000 confirmed cases. So talk of everyone getting the virus, or just 10% of the US population getting the virus would be overwhelming. The 2017-2019 flu infected 27% of the world population over two+ years and killed somewhere between 1 and 6% of the world population (no one is really sure.) In places that prepared and were able to slow the spread the death toll was reduced. [/QUOTE]