How many new Covid cases per 80k people? Of those, how many require hospitalization? Of those, how many die WITHOUT PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS? I'd posit that it's probably ZERO. People catch the flu all the time and when we had SARS, H1N1 just a few years ago, there was NONE of this hysteria. I say if fans want to go to the games, make all seats available and require masks.
The current U.S. hospitalization rate is 138 per 100,000 (all ages, on average -- at age 65 or over, it's 379 people).
SARS deaths in the U.S.: 0 (zero, none)
H1N1 (2009 Swine Flu) deaths in the U.S.: 12,469.
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. (thus far): 164,464 -- real-time number as of 11:30AM 8/8/20
You do understand why the hysteria for SARS and H1N1 (swine flu) was not on the level of COVID-19, don't you?
To compare with seasonal influenza deaths in the U.S. (per CDC stats):
2018-19: 34,157 (preliminary count, not yet finalized)
2017-18: 61,000 (preliminary count, not yet finalized)
2016-17: 38,000
2015-16: 51,000
2014-15: 38,000
2013-14: 43,000
2012-13: 12,000
2011-12: 37,000
Average influenza deaths in the U.S. per year: Just over 39,000. Again, I hope you understand this comparison with 164,000 Covid deaths and counting. On average, it takes over four years to get as many flu deaths as we've had in 5 months of Covid deaths in this country. For reference, a flu season in the U.S. is defined by a 8-month span, October through May.
