{"id":51620,"date":"2020-03-07T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51620"},"modified":"2020-03-07T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T13:25:15","slug":"shocking-new-study-concludes-that-the-best-case-scenario-for-a-covid-19-pandemic-is-15-million-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51620","title":{"rendered":"Shocking New Study Concludes That The \u201cBest Case Scenario\u201d For A COVID-19 Pandemic Is 15 Million Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shocking New Study Concludes That The \u201cBest Case Scenario\u201d For A COVID-19 Pandemic Is 15 Million Dead<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Over the past week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China more than tripled once again.  Hopefully it is extremely unlikely that such a rapid growth rate will continue, because if it does, there will be more than a million confirmed cases outside of China just a month from now.  I don\u2019t even want to imagine the level of fear<\/a> that would cause, and needless to say that would be absolutely devastating for the entire global economy<\/a>.  Of course if we do get to a million confirmed cases, there won\u2019t be any way to keep it from spreading everywhere on the entire globe, and the ultimate death toll could be unimaginable.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the WHO, the current death rate for this outbreak is 3.4 percent<\/a>, and many experts believe that it will continue to go higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means that a whole lot of people will die if this virus cannot be contained somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers at a major university in Australia modeled seven different scenarios for how a COVID-19 pandemic might go, and in the \u201cbest-case scenario\u201d the death toll was 15 million<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New modeling from The Australian National University looks at seven scenarios of how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the world\u2019s wealth, ranging from low severity to high severity.<\/p>

Four of the seven scenarios in the paper examine the impact of COVID-19 spreading outside China, ranging from low to high severity. A seventh scenario examines a global impact in which a mild pandemic occurs each year indefinitely.<\/p>

But even in the low-severity model \u2014 or best-case scenario of the seven, which the paper acknowledged were not definitive \u2014 ANU researchers estimate a global GDP loss of $2.4 trillion, with an estimated death toll of 15 million<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A pandemic that kills 15 million people would change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shocking New Study Concludes That The \u201cBest Case Scenario\u201d For A COVID-19 Pandemic Is 15 Million Dead Over the past week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China more than tripled once again.  Hopefully it is extremely unlikely that such a rapid growth rate will continue, because if it does, there will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[130,28817,29137,29136,28947,29011,29171,3262,29138,23103,3761,395,14144,29140,4901,25804,12750,607,29139,29141,856,10233],"class_list":["post-51620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-america","tag-coronavirus-in-the-united-states","tag-coronavirus-pandemic","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-disease","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-global-trade","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-medical-treatment","tag-michael-snyder","tag-outbreak","tag-pain","tag-pandemic","tag-treatment","tag-very-painful","tag-virus","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51621,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51620\/revisions\/51621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}