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Mr. August, a very good letter, The issue with this virus is its death rate which, so far, has held at 1.7% in the US, exponentially higher than the rate of the swine flu or, for that matter, the regular flu. As we test more people then, presumably, that rate should come down but for the last week or so, it's remained steady - and the US is testing more people. So if 70 million are diagnosed and that rate stays the same, then we're looking at 1.1 million deaths. Even if the rate falls to 1%, we're looking at 700,000 deaths in this country. Hopefully, the social distancing and other measures will limit the spread. We all need to be concerned with the economic cost of this, There are many businesses that will just not reopen when this is over.