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What you are reporting is disingenuous and uninformed. CDC estimations of flu deaths in 2019 suggest that the number you provide match a regular flu season. Not

• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Do CDC do the same as UK, who apparently report all additional Winter deaths as "flu" (which rather helpfully for the government shifts focus away from poor elderly care during "austerity", still being cut further AFAICT). Only the ONS (Office for National Statistics) also report the actual verified data on flu and instead of numbers O(10k) it's O(100). For 2017, the most recent year, it's ~450 deaths total for the UK [1], vs an anticipated infection rate of 20% of the adult population and 50% of the rest. That's 450/15M, 0.003%. Reported death rates are O(1%) for Covid19. Could you explain that discrepancy? The BMJ (British Medical Journal) has some discussion of the controversy of over-reporting of flu deaths here [2]. Re those CDC figures, do you really have ~200,000 people hospitalised with flu each month in USA? --- [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathregistrationssummarytablesenglandandwalesreferencetables https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... [2] https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2795/rr-6 https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2795/rr-6