The following are official CDC and WHO numbers to give some perspective on the death rate of CoVID-19. Do not misunderstand, CoVID is real and serious. I just want people to understand the reality of how many people die from other causes.
I find that it is interesting that the numbers in the 2018 information and graphs reflect per 100k people so each of the numbers needs to be multiplied by 3270:
327 million people (US population in 2018) divided by 100k=3270.
What that means is you have to do the math to get an estimated number:
3270 X 39.7 (2018 chronic respiratory diseases) = 129,000+ people died
Then add in influenza and pneumonia deaths: 3270 X 14.9 = 48,000+
So over 170 thousand people died from acute and chronic respiratory illnesses in 2018.
To summarize, in the first 4 months of 2020 the U.S. has just over 45k deaths from CoVID. If that number triples by years end there will be less deaths from CoVID than from chronic and acute respiratory diseases in 2018. There is also evidence that many respiratory illnesses are being counted as CoVID deaths, even when not verified.
I want to be clear, I am not minimizing the risk of CoVID but the numbers seem to indicate that it is not killing people excessively more than other respiratory illnesses and as time goes on, more effective treatments will be discovered so the real question is:
Can we get back to closer to normal life or are people going to keep living in fear?
In the chart for 2016 the numbers are just listed. I wonder why they changed it:
Statistics Reports