Covid-19 has killed 250,000 people in the US. That's 10 times the deaths from car crashes in a year

On average, 24,166 people die each year in car crashes, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (The number includes drivers or passengers killed in car crashes, not others such as bicyclists or pedestrians who were killed as the result of car crashes.)

 

That means at least 10 times more people have died from Covid-19 so far this year than car crashes typically do over an entire year.

An average of 42,200 people died from the flu each year from 2014 through 2018, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So in less than 10 months, Covid-19 deaths have reached more than five times the average number of annual flu deaths.

The new coronavirus isn't just deadlier than the flu -- it's also much more contagious than the flu.  ...