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> More importantly, the mortality, while much higher than flu, it's still relatively low.

Anecdote: someone was trying to convice me to panic about Coronavirus because "three hundred and [something] people died just today!"

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"Actually, three hundred thousand people died today. Probably more, even."

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I think a lot of people would be very surprised if you told them how many people die in their country every year.

It's nearly 3 million in the US.