On average, 7,452 people die every day in the US. sourceThat's roughly two per county, on average.
Since the beginning of this coronavirus outbreak, 49 Americans have died.
Less than one per day, on average, and 37 were from Washington State, and 25 of those were tied to a single nursing home in Kirkland, over half of the US total.
Among the people in the United States who have died from coronavirus, almost all have been in their 70s, 80s or 90s. The youngest known fatality was a man in his 40s.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlLet me put this in perspective, because that is still less than 1 person per day in the entire country who has died of this since the outbreak began. By contrast,
102 people per day get killed in auto accidents. (You may be 100X more likely to die driving around looking for toilet paper than of the virus).
As sad as it is,
an average of 132 people per day in the US die by their own hand.
Over 45 people per day die from falls in the US.
Sixteen per day are killed crossing the street in pedestrian/vehicle accidents. Three people per day, on average, die from being too hot or too cold (hypo/hyper thermia, not counting those who die in fires).
While this virus is something new and different, something seemingly more random than falling down or not looking both ways before crossing the street, so far the number of deaths from the coronavirus are statistically insignificant compared to other causes of death in the US.
Maybe it is just me, but I really don't understand the panic.
