Covid-19 Coronavirus deaths 500 in 6 days

[JMatthews]

for those of you who think that the Covid-19 pandemic is being blown out of proportion consider this:

March 1 to April 8 Covid deaths in Canada 510
April 9 to 15 Covid deaths in Canada 500

[trimmer21]

It's a question of perspective,500 deaths from Coronavirus as opposed to 15K every year in Canada,alone,from Flu that none of the main stream media or the politicians ever mention.

[MarkB]

Well we have 181 and counting for today alone! We have already blown away the previous daily death toll! It's ramping up it seems.

[JMatthews]

It's a question of perspective,500 deaths from Coronavirus as opposed to 15K every year in Canada,alone,from Flu that none of the main stream media or the politicians ever mention.

WHO states the Flu’s death rate is 1%, Covid-19 3.5%. With the recent increase in deaths, the rare is now higher than the 3.5% may be increased. Also, there is no vaccine to prevent Covid-19 but there is for the flu so it is more likely to infect people.




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[73hunter]

But don’t forget that the 3.5% is based on known and confirmed cases, which is widely believed to be under-reported.

[JMatthews]

The most recent numbers for Ontario show a rate of 5.5% deaths.
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[johnjyb]

Ontario also had 1 of the lowest per capita test rates until the last few days
John

[js4fn]

Myself instead of seeing numbers of those testing positive. I rather seen where and the number in icu and how they contacted it

[warpipe]

Devastating in the long term care homes. Sounds like Ford is trying too get a handle on it. I know locally many of the workers have to work at two sometimes three homes in order to get enough hours to survive. This crisis certainly emphasizes much more needs to be done in order to protect our most vulnerable.

[JBen]

I’m not sure how much good comparing to the “flu” is. It’s a different beast. We still don’t know if people will get it again ( S Korea is reporting positives in people previously recovered). We still don’t know if it will leave many with permanent damage. Etc etc..
there are those that reference the Spanish flu. But that was a different world. Many lived in squalor, hygiene was not what it is today. Medicine was not what it is today. They didn’t even have testing back then. If this were 1918, it would be far far worse.

I read an article the other day that helped put it in some perspective for me. Numbers are US. And from memory.

Projected Covid deaths. 100-250,k

Spanish flu: 700k
Civil war: 215k
WWII: 290k
WWWi: 53k
Vietnam: 47k
Korean War: 33k

Annual flu: 55k
Covid to date: 34k

In the span of 4-6,months it’s going to kill what wars took years to do. Not sure how that’s not devestating in anyone’s book.

Found out today, my Aunt thats in an LTC is positive.