Re: CDC: Up to 80 Million Americans Infected With H1N1
Maybe check this out: Insert big red unprecedented ILI spike public never saw from Figure 1:
http://ma-publichealth.typepad.com/file ... _12_09.pdf ]
So if we use
55 million -80 million people getting this virus.
That's
18%-28%- got sick, or
245,000 Hospitalized, or
16,000 Deaths Each year in the United States on average,
5% to 20% of the population gets the Seaonal flu; or
15 million to 60 millionon average, more than
200,000 hospitalized from flu-related complications, and;
about
36,000 Deaths from flu-related causes.
All facts from CDC site
* NOTE: CFR and RO numbers are going to change, and they are not normally calculated until after the incident is over, which this one may not be.