A partial list of the sources I used for today’s essay:
“Provisional Death Counts for COVID-19″
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
“COVID-19 risk factors: Age, underlying conditions, genetics, and unknowns”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/8/21207269/covid-19-coronavirus-risk-factors
“How deadly is the new coronavirus?”
https://www.livescience.com/is-coronavirus-deadly.htm
“Odds of Hospitalization”
“The Deadliest Viruses on Earth”
https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/the-deadliest-viruses-on-earth
“Beware of the World’s Most Deadly Infectious Disease: Tuberculosis”
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/article/beware-worlds-most-deadly-infectious-disease
“Causes of Death – Our World in Data”
https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death
“Perspectives on the Pandemic, Episode 2”
“Perspectives on the Pandemic, Episode 3”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK0Wtjh3HVA
“List of human disease case fatality rates”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fatality_rates