• The_v@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    50 million out of 1.8 billion population. Or 2.78% of the poulaton died.

    Today the same death rate for a pandemic would be around 225 million people.

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      I was tracking the pandemic and the mortality rate among patients who had to be hospitalized during the initial strain was over 5% at times! People really don’t get how lucky we are that the omicron and subsequent variants has lower mortality. Imagining even 10 or 15% would completely collapse our medical system altogether.