Will those life insurance companies pay up?The Spanish flu is estimated to have had a 2.5% mortality rate.you had this information....
There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."
Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.
It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC
There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.
No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.
It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.
C-19 is estimated to be around 2 percent.
Since no measures were taken to contain the Spanish flu outbreak, it infected about 1/3 of the world's population. With a 2.5% mortality rate, it knocked off somewhere between 50 and 100 million people.
A 1/3 infection rate today would mean 2.5 billion infected. 2 percent mortality means 51 million dead.
Thus the current panic.