Especially because the same people always compare the numbers with influenza, which are almost entirely based on statistics and comparison to previous years. Fo

Especially because the same people always compare the numbers with influenza, which are almost entirely based on statistics and comparison to previous years. For example in Germany in 2017 25000 people died of influenza (the bad flu year), but people which had a confirmed death due to influenza (i.e. Being tested positive and died of it) were something like 300 IIRC. Don't get me wrong I think it's perfectly valid to use statistics for estimating the impact/IFR but you can't like many people with an agenda pick and choose your counting methods.