New York state has about 269,000 confirmed coronavirus infections.
An antibody study indicates that probably 13.9% of the state’s residence have been infected with the coronavirus. That would be 19.45m x .139 = 2.7m actual infections.
About 21k people have died in the state from Covid-19.
21k/2.7m = 0.77% death rate. Which would make it more than 7 times deadlier than the flu.
Coronavirus is also much more contagious than the flu, with an R0 of at least 2.2 and now estimated to be possibly as high as 5.7 vs 1.3 for the flu (see CDC release below).
Coronavirus is at least 7 times deadlier and wildly more contagious than the flu.
