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The part of that most people, including you, seen to miss is that this goes way beyond those sick with the virus. The strain this virus is putting on healthcare
by heimidal 7y ago
The part of that most people, including you, seen to miss is that this goes way beyond those sick with the virus. The strain this virus is putting on healthcare is unlike anything the flu does in any given year, even during epidemics in the past several decades. That means it will kill people who are sick with something else. Pray you don't have a need for an ICU bed any time soon.
In the US, the flu kills between 12,000 and 61,000 people each year depending on the season. COVID-19 will almost certainly reach the low end of that range in between two and three days. It went from 100 to more than 9,000 deaths in only three weeks.
It's not the flu.
P.S. everyone who can get a flu shot should, every year, regardless of age. Herd immunity assists in protecting the entire population.
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- gpderetta 7y agoYes. In Italy it has already killed twice as many people as a normal influenza season.
- krn320 7y agoLooking at this shows completely different story: https://www.euromomo.eu/ https://www.euromomo.eu/ January 2017 was much worse overall in Europe, it's not even comparable.
- gpderetta 6y agoThat's interesting, it shows how misleading an average can be (the average 8000 dead for the flu that I quoted). Still, if you focus on Italy, which is the most ahead in Europe, by March 28th (the time that report was updated), the number of deaths was already matching the 2017 peak (and in about 2/3 of the time). Since then the death count went up 70%. edit: also note the caution about the uncertainty due to delayed registration.
- gpderetta 6y agoIt seems that the website was updated a few minutes ago with data for week 14. Italy is looking much worse than 2017. England is also very scary. The data is still lagging by a few days, but it seems that the numbers are starting to trend down.