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Howard G. Smith, M.D. is a former radio medical editor and talk show host in the Boston Metro area. His "Medical Minute" of health and wellness news and commentary was a regular weekday feature on WBZ-AM, WRKO-AM, and WMRE-AM. His popular two-way talk show, Dr. Howard Smith OnCall, was regularly heard Sunday morning and middays on WBZ.

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CoVid19 Is 4 Times More Deadly Than The Flu

May 23, 2020

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/-V4gZZIgJl0

 

If you get infected with CoVid19 and show symptoms, you have a 1 in 75 chance of dying from the disease.  Compare that to your 1 in 1000 chance of dying if you contract the flu.

 

University of Washington researchers analyzed data from 116 counties in 33 states.  The highest fatality rate indicates that 1 in every 28 persons infected will die.  Overall, using the most optimistic estimate that only 1 in every 5 Americans will be infected, by the end of this year 350,000 to 1.2 million of us could die.

 

We can save ourselves and our families by obeying the 3 Commandments of Public Health: scrub, mask, distance.

 

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00455?cookieSet=1

 

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