2.2 million deaths... that's A LOT! But again... those are projections not data. Data will ALWAYS be more accurate than projections.
2.2 divided 330 is less than 1% which I believe is the point you are trying to make here. Again... these are projections/predictions. They may or may not be right. If someone told you that the Oakland A's would win 102 games next year... you can't just pretend that it is now reality because a model predicted it. It could still be WAY off and likely is.
Let's consider the DATA we have right now. 557,663 cases in the U.S. and 22,116 deaths which is double the number of deaths we had just 1 week ago today. That's a nearly 4% death rate so far. But we don't have any idea how many people have been infected without symptoms so... we can only assume that the actual death percentages will be much lower than this. Now, I'm willing to believe that the actual death rate WILL be much lower... but the truth is we just don't know right now.
In less than 1 month there have been over a half of million people infected by Covid-19 in the U.S. The current pace is roughly 30K(this number could go higher or lower in the months to come) new cases a day. At this current pace... even with an extremely optimistic death rate of only 1%(current death rate is 4% 22K/550K=4%) it would STILL be around 100K deaths by the end of the year.
There are hundreds of other variables that we just don't know right now. What we do know is... 11K deaths in the U.S. just last week. There are roughly 38 weeks left in 2020... if we continue to average more than 10K deaths per week that's going to be FAR more than 100K deaths.
Btw, are you REALLY a lawyer? Is this how you talk in the courtroom? I'm just trying to imagine the type of person that would hire you.
2.2 divided 330 is less than 1% which I believe is the point you are trying to make here. Again... these are projections/predictions. They may or may not be right. If someone told you that the Oakland A's would win 102 games next year... you can't just pretend that it is now reality because a model predicted it. It could still be WAY off and likely is.
Let's consider the DATA we have right now. 557,663 cases in the U.S. and 22,116 deaths which is double the number of deaths we had just 1 week ago today. That's a nearly 4% death rate so far. But we don't have any idea how many people have been infected without symptoms so... we can only assume that the actual death percentages will be much lower than this. Now, I'm willing to believe that the actual death rate WILL be much lower... but the truth is we just don't know right now.
In less than 1 month there have been over a half of million people infected by Covid-19 in the U.S. The current pace is roughly 30K(this number could go higher or lower in the months to come) new cases a day. At this current pace... even with an extremely optimistic death rate of only 1%(current death rate is 4% 22K/550K=4%) it would STILL be around 100K deaths by the end of the year.
There are hundreds of other variables that we just don't know right now. What we do know is... 11K deaths in the U.S. just last week. There are roughly 38 weeks left in 2020... if we continue to average more than 10K deaths per week that's going to be FAR more than 100K deaths.
Btw, are you REALLY a lawyer? Is this how you talk in the courtroom? I'm just trying to imagine the type of person that would hire you.