They don't have a mortality rate of 7.1%, that would imply that only 140,000 people got the flu or pneumonia. "7.1% of the deaths occurring during the week endi

They don't have a mortality rate of 7.1%, that would imply that only 140,000 people got the flu or pneumonia. "7.1% of the deaths occurring during the week ending January 25, 2020 (week 4) were due to P&I". Of all the people that died, 7.1% of them died of flu or pneumonia, and many of them likely had other things going wrong. 10,000 people dying is a lot, but consider that tens of millions of people get sick. As opposed to tens of thousands getting sick and hundreds dying, which is a big difference in mortality.