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Old 05-27-2020, 04:48 PM   #4869
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Originally Posted by Arles View Post
Unfortunately most of the deaths will end up being elderly people with compromised health conditions (and many will be in assisted living). But for a country of 330 million, 100K deaths is extremely low. Especially when you compare to places like UK, Spain and Italy.

So either this isn't very deadly in the US for some reason or the US has done a solid job in minimizing situations where covid cases leads to deaths.

100k deaths in 2 months with a country largely locked down is high.

The death toll is likely higher due to lack of testing and political reasons.
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