Originally Posted by
narvik
How many lives are being saved??
I've asked this before (then about China), but I am still wondering how many people are NOT dying because of COVID-19.
With people practicing social distancing, not working, and not traveling, "normal" deaths from influenza, car accidents, work related accidents, etc. should be on the decline, no?
Wondering if anyone is tracking THAT statistic?
This Stanford professor thinks it's possible that more lives will be saved from influenza this year than from Covid-19, since the isolation will prevent the spread of that. When you add in the other factors I think it's almost a certainty, but the lives that are lost to economic damage will probably tip the scales the other way