https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
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It is estimated that 11–21% of the then global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700 million–1.4 billion people contracted the illness — more in absolute terms than the Spanish flu pandemic, with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities.
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Yikes!
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A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the 2009 H1N1 flu was no more severe than the yearly seasonal flu.
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Huh? OK then.
A 0.02% mortality rate is bad (every single death is one too much), but not disruptive. Despite the absolute death toll that is nothing exceptional.
One flu over the cuckoo's nest.
The problem with corona is that the death rate is far worse. About 140,000 infected, half of them cured already, but over 5000 people died.
Some of the currently ill people will die, so I guess about 5% of all infected people will die. If Corona infects as many people as the swine flu did then about 50 million people will die.
It would even be worse than the Spanish flu a century ago.
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