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”

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-03-30/odds-of-hospitalization-death-with-covid-19-rise-steadily-with-age-study

“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”

https://youtu.be/lGC5sGdz4kg

“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