On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 12:57:48 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:00:17 -0400,
wrote:

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:50:24 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I understand that Doc Birx says current models point to
up to 2.2 million deaths if people do *nothing* in terms
of following CDC recommendations and 100K to 200K deaths
if people do things perfectly.

Is she talking world-wide or just in the USA?

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USA

If that seems far fetched, consider that the so called Spanish flu is
estimated to have killed over 500,000 in the USA at a time when the
total population was much lower than now.

From the interweb

The estimated population of the United States on 1 July 1918 was some
103 million (Linder and Grove 1943), so approximately 0.5 percent of
the US population died as a result of the epidemic. Worldwide, the
death toll is generally put at 20 million.

Interesting that Stalin was estimated to put away about that same amount of his own countrymen.