Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by charliemil4 2299 days ago
For everyone else, this is pegging Covid-19 deaths to ~36,000 [0]

(was curious)

[0] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...

1 comments

More like 360-3600 (dnautics said 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than vehicle deaths).
...and there are 3500 recorded deaths so far from COVID-19, so we've very likely already exceeded this estimate as of March 7, 2020.
Please don't mix national and worldwide numbers: WHO estimates 1,350,000 traffic related death worldwide [1]. That said, every single loss of life is a tragedy by itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

I think dnautics was just talking about the US, so there are only 19 deaths so far.