The deaths from COVID-19 are tragic and awful in every way. Follow the guidelines of YOUR local officials-some places are much more severely affected than others. This information is only to give perspective on timelines and relations of this pandemic to other dis-ease processes (and to encourage you to stay healthy now and after coronavirus wanes).
Here are a few facts that may be of comfort…(video explains, references below video)…
Yesterday (2020April16), two thousand one-hundred and fourteen people (2,114) died from coronavirus.
Please: Help us fight coronavirus but helping get the word out about this COVID-19 switchboard to help with this problem (as discussed in the Wallstreet Journal.
COVID-19: Approximately 138,008 deaths reported worldwide; 30,985 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 16, 2020.*
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year (average about 40,000 per year in the US–year after year).
Yesterday, just yesterday, in the U.S.A., the following casualties occurred (assuming we had a day that follows the statistics of the past year)…
1. Drunk drivers killed 30 people in the US alone (about 11,000 per year)
2. Around 3,287 teenagers attempted suicide–based on rates (Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers-after trauma).
4. 42 people were murdered (most of these involve crimes of passion where families are being split or where drugs or alcohol are involved).
5. 3,109 couples divorced (based on 1998 figures)
6. 16 million adults (18 years and older) suffered from major depression (6.7% of adults in the US)
7. Yesterday, more than 1 million people were living with H.I.V.
8. One person died every 37 seconds in the US from heart disease- that’s 2,335 yesterday