My favorite meme from twitter yesterday.
Here is the link to the CDC data confirming the stats: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm
@jennifer how can the US tally be accurate if there has not been an accurate test except recently?
Not the point - no one freaked in 2009-2010 when cases and deaths were overwhelmingly higher.
I don't doubt that the numbers here will go up, but I would bet they will not reach those of H1N1. Not even close.
@jennifer @chaibudesh the deaths per confirmed case were overwhelmingly lower with with H1N1 plague.
@progo
Ah, yes. I typed in 6.8 not 60.8.
So it's not the number of deaths, but the percent that people are reacting to. Makes sense to me to see the two differently. Not a fan of hysteria or panic, but logically they're significantly different by the very numbers in the meme.
Maybe with more testing the numbers would be different, but the meme seems a bit off.
@SecondJon @jennifer @chaibudesh makes me kinda sad that people can see the two simple info cards in this thread with Obama and Orange Man and can't just … SEE … the death rate claimed by the cards in black and white because they didn't actually print that figure.
@progo @SecondJon @jennifer https://youtu.be/qubGE9dkapA npc university 15 -a classic.
@SecondJon @jennifer @chaibudesh I'm not sure why you're off by an order of magnitude compared to me. You may have misplaced a decimal point.
Anyway, we're comparing comparing a finished crisis to an ongoing war, so don't expect this 2.86% death rate to be more accurate than an order of magnitude in the end. It's BAD though.
And remember that "confirmed cases" for both figures are not "all cases". The whole "H1N1 crisis" to "COVID-19 crisis" thing is almost not worth comparing.