Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SvennoJ said:

trunkswd said:

The numbers will continue to go up as more people are tested. I'm not that alarmed by it yet. Most important number is how many people are dying from it. 

Driving is still more lethal, on average 3287 traffic deaths per day. Corona is now up to 1600 deaths a day.
In the USA it's about 100 per day, today 112 died in the USA.

However the daily death toll can still keep climbing for 3 weeks after getting the growth factor below 1. But we could also find a successful treatment. If things keep going as they were the last week, we'll be past the daily traffic death rate before the end of next week.

Driving is more lethal than corona because more people are driving than have Corona. As a potential threat, Corona can be much more dangerous (henc the efforts to prevent its spread). In Lombardy, more people died from Corona yesterday than they have traffic fatalities in a year.