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China only had 144 flu-caused deaths in an entire year (https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml), mean

China only had 144 flu-caused deaths in an entire year (https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml), meaning the Wuhan virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people as the flu kills in an entire year throughout China.

fspeech 7y ago
It's mostly a classification thing. Most who die from diseases associated with the flu, like pneumonia, are not recorded to have died from the flu.
greenshackle2 7y ago
Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. From your own source: "The statistical methods used by the Chinese CDC should be revised, as deaths from pneumonia caused by the flu, for example, are not counted, the observer said." If you ignore death by pneumonia, the deaths for coronavirus are very low too. "An analysis led by Chinese scientists published in The Lancet Public Health in September 2019 found that there were 84,200 to 92,000 flu-related deaths in China each year, accounting for 8.2 percent of all deaths from respiratory diseases." Oops.
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- Alex3917 7y ago
  > Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. That's literally the point. If the U.S. has 330M people and 30k flu deaths per year, then all else being equal one would expect that what China reports as 144 deaths is really 120,000. Which means that if Corona virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people who have died of the flu (per China's reporting), one would expect that it's really killed 936,000. Obviously that's very simplistic, but that's basically why people are worried -- no one knows what the real numbers out of China are, so that kind of back-of-the-napkin math is about the best we can do right now.

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China only had 144 flu-caused deaths in an entire year (https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml), mean

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fspeech 7y ago
It's mostly a classification thing. Most who die from diseases associated with the flu, like pneumonia, are not recorded to have died from the flu.
greenshackle2 7y ago
Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. From your own source: "The statistical methods used by the Chinese CDC should be revised, as deaths from pneumonia caused by the flu, for example, are not counted, the observer said." If you ignore death by pneumonia, the deaths for coronavirus are very low too. "An analysis led by Chinese scientists published in The Lancet Public Health in September 2019 found that there were 84,200 to 92,000 flu-related deaths in China each year, accounting for 8.2 percent of all deaths from respiratory diseases." Oops.
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- Alex3917 7y ago
  > Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting. That's literally the point. If the U.S. has 330M people and 30k flu deaths per year, then all else being equal one would expect that what China reports as 144 deaths is really 120,000. Which means that if Corona virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people who have died of the flu (per China's reporting), one would expect that it's really killed 936,000. Obviously that's very simplistic, but that's basically why people are worried -- no one knows what the real numbers out of China are, so that kind of back-of-the-napkin math is about the best we can do right now.