COVID-19, meet our Mayflower rats!!

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Today is the first day in 2 weeks that the fatality rate in the USA FINALLY bounced up, amd only by .006%!! ! So I thought how is the USA so resilient to all of this when so much of the world hasn't been?

RATS!!

Since our (hostile) takeover, this country has been filled with people from all ethnicities fighting off what those rats brought by every ship since the Mayflower. People of all genetic origins have been pushing medical science forward for over 500 years to protect us and make us 1 of the most resilient countries to such viruses. Clearly the rats can't take full credit, but as in all sciences there is a cause and reaction, and those dirty rodents sure do cause a reaction.

So, to the rats, your passage may have finally been paid.

2020-16-3
3487 cases.
68 deaths.
68/3487 = 0.019501003728133065672
2% fatality chance.

2020-17-3
4226 cases
75 deaths.
75/4226 = 0.017747278750591575958
1.8% fatality chance.

2020-18-3
7038 cases.
97 deaths.
97/7038 = 0.013782324524012503552
1.4% fatality chance.

2020-19-3
10442 cases.
150 deaths.
150/10442 = 0.014365064163953265658
1.4% fatality chance.

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Since no country that I know of has done complete testing of its population, no country has an exact count on number of cases. According to reports, many people have minor symptoms. I have what I prefer to think is my annual bout of hayfever. Additionally, some jurisdictions are not testing people with symptoms unless they have been in contact with a known case.

That's a long way of saying we don't know the deaths/infections ratio in any country.

As for some kind of natural U.S. resistance, I hope that is so for personal reasons, but you may find this item of interest:

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.​

That was in a U.S. population of 100,000,000 more or less. The same percentage of deaths today would give about two million dead in the US.

COVID-19 seems to be not nearly as fatal as the 1918 pandemic.
 
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