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Originally Posted by suzzer99
It could be much worse if more like 70% get infected (which a lot of people are predicting as the upper end) and our death rate soars because our hospitals are overloaded.
4% death rate like Italy is seeing at 70% exposed = 10 million people. Society would probably completely break down.
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H1N1 infected 18% of our population...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that swine flu infected nearly 61 million people in the United States and caused 12,469 deaths.
If the R0 of this bug is really double, we could see more than that, obviously.