The panic US residents are suffering needs to come to an end on this. #FakeNews has too many whipped into a frenzy for the sole purpose of bashing President Trump and hoping they stay home on November 3, 2020.
At present trends, there will be a scant 244 deaths on 12,757 known infections. Can the infection count go higher? Sure, if more people get tested,it will statistically. Yet that fails to mean more deaths will happen. Ultimately, that would bring down the death rate.
The actual math simply fails to support any kind of reason to be fretting the situation whatsoever.
Hospital Resources
The total of staffed beds in all U.S. hospitals for 2018 was 924,107. There were 36,353,946 total admissions in all U.S. hospitals. That implies a turnover of 36 admits per bed.
With an average stay of 5.5 days, that implies a 40.7% vacancy rate. That is a lot of slack.
Compared to Influenza
It has been reported that 22,000 have died during the 2019-2020 flu season beginning October 1, 2019. Those deaths came with 36 million infections.
Thus, there have been 10.768 million infections per 100 million. That is 11,097 times more infections each 100 million than the Wuhan virus.
As to deaths, there have been 6,646 flu deaths per 100 million. That is 355 times more flu deaths per 100 million than Wuhan virus deaths.
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