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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 2240050" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>The 1957/8 Asian Flu pandemic was estimated to have caused 1-4 million deaths whereas the estimate for the 1918 flu pandemic was 20-100 million deaths. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic</a> If the Covid-19 is closer in severity to that of 1918 flu then I would say that the measures being introduced are warranted. </p><p></p><p>A team from the University of Southampton modelled the effect of using measures to mitigate the outbreak:-</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>The team also modelled the impact of mitigation in the US and concluded that it would roughly halve the number of deaths there, from to 2.2 to 1.2 million</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Read more: <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237755-analysis-suggests-uk-still-not-doing-enough-to-prevent-covid-19-deaths/#ixzz6HtDXDPNX" target="_blank">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237755-analysis-suggests-uk-still-not-doing-enough-to-prevent-covid-19-deaths/#ixzz6HtDXDPNX</a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 2240050, member: 52527"] The 1957/8 Asian Flu pandemic was estimated to have caused 1-4 million deaths whereas the estimate for the 1918 flu pandemic was 20-100 million deaths. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic[/URL] If the Covid-19 is closer in severity to that of 1918 flu then I would say that the measures being introduced are warranted. A team from the University of Southampton modelled the effect of using measures to mitigate the outbreak:- [INDENT][I] The team also modelled the impact of mitigation in the US and concluded that it would roughly halve the number of deaths there, from to 2.2 to 1.2 million Read more: [URL]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237755-analysis-suggests-uk-still-not-doing-enough-to-prevent-covid-19-deaths/#ixzz6HtDXDPNX[/URL][/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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