Rigged for Hillary wrote:
As of 10:08PM EDT: 80 dead out of 4,300 people in the US who have tested positive. That comes out to a 1.86% mortality rate. This media driven fear mongering has got to stop.
Again, we will NOT have 1M in the US dying by April.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-updates-cases-fears-deaths-us-latest-2020-03-16/
1) You do not understand the definition of mortality rate. The fatality rate so far in the US is 1.86%. The mortality rate in the US is 0.000024 % (80/330,00,000).
2) Roughly 3,200 of those 4,300 people who have tested positive have done so in the last 9 days. Most of them have not yet had time for the disease to have run its course. Sadly, the percentage of those 4,300 people who will die from the disease will ultimately be far above 1.86%. It is highly likely that the percentage of deaths from those 4,300 will be 4% or higher.
3) No person that I am aware of has ever said that there will be 1 million deaths in the US by the end of April. What has been claimed is that there would be over 1 million cases in the US before the end of April UNLESS SUBSTANTIAL EFFORTS WERE MADE TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. Such efforts have begun. It remains to be seen whether they will be enough.
4) You seem to be confused as to the difference between "media driven" and "fact driven". Don't feel bad, it is a common weakness among your cohorts.