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The best estimate I found was from May of this year. At the time they estimated somewhere between 7.7 and 23 million cases of long Covid in the US.

Compare that with 1.6 million people getting a cancer diagnosis every year, about 40 thousand traffic fatalities and 2.2 million injured in traffic accidents.



Well, that sounds fairly staggering. Do you have a source link?


The long Covid and cancer numbers are from The NY Times podcast [1].

The traffic injuries and fatalities are from Wikipedia [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/podcasts/the-daily/long-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...




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