> The primary reason why the flu takes tens of thousands of lives every year This article and its analysis uses one method to count excess mortality to flu, an

> The primary reason why the flu takes tens of thousands of lives every year This article and its analysis uses one method to count excess mortality to flu, and a different method to count excess mortality due to covid-19. The method used for flu is inclusive, and will count more death as a result of flu. The method used for covid-19 is exclusive, and will reduce the numbers attributed to covid-19. Counting death is hard, but there's no acknowledgement of that in this submission.