The Texas Department of State Health Services said that the patient became ill following contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with bird flu.
Losing ~20 million would have a significant economic impact. That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country. Considering that the group (right wing lower middle class) that was determined to not follow mitigation efforts or push others to work without them we’d lose a lot of workers in the transportation and service industries, particularly in the south.
Spanish Flu (should be called Kansas Flu because that’s where the first case was reported), killed .6% of the population in the US. Covid was .15 %
This would be magnitudes higher.
Losing ~20 million would have a significant economic impact. That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country. Considering that the group (right wing lower middle class) that was determined to not follow mitigation efforts or push others to work without them we’d lose a lot of workers in the transportation and service industries, particularly in the south.
or just one nyc and one dallas/ft worth