agesilaus wrote:
That may be the rate for the people known to have the virus but it is well known that many people get it and never get sick enough to be hospitalized. I belive it was Minneapolis that tested sewage flow into the treatment plant and found that the number of people infected greatly exceeds the number known to be infected.
Furthermore the number of people being put down as having died from the virus is probably greatly inflated. If someone ends up hospitalized here for say heart failure and they get infected, the cause of death will be shown as WuFlu even tho the died from the heart problem. There are some that say that anyone dying in a hospital right now will be shown as dying from the WuFlu unless it's very obvious it was something else like trauma.
Yeah, we could end up showing a very low seasonal flu fatality rate this year because this virus will get the blame for what would have been labeled as a seasonal flu fatality.
