HHS Assistant Secretary: Estimates of Coronavirus Mortality Rate "Somewhere between .1% and 1%" -- Or Similar to a Flu Virus (VIDEO)

The death rate for the flu in the United States is an average of 63,730 deaths per year.

According to Right Diagnosis — Death rate extrapolations for USA for Flu: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour.

On Thursday HHS Assistant Secretary Admiral Brett Giroir told reporters,

“The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%. That’s lower than you heard probably in many reports … it’s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%.”

This puts coronavirus on par with a typical flu epidemic to something slightly higher — NOT something like a SARS or MERS virus with a much higher mortality rate.

Via NBC News:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1235786467420581888

President Trump was right.
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