"If comparing the size of Italy to the size of our states and comparing early shut down we might be looking at 40 to 50 times more deaths. I sure hope not"
Tracy I am no mathematician, but I cant see how based on population comparison US deaths could be "40 to 50 times more deaths than Italy".
Italy has just over 60 million people and the United States about 327 million people.
Besides Italy having a higher percentage of elderly, don't those population figures show population wise the US is 5-6 times larger than Italy?
So how and why would the US death rates be "40 to 50 times worse" than Italy?
At 5 times worse than Italy (3500 thus far), our death rate would be around 20,000 which is around the typical flu deaths this time of the year.
