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Do you accept that America with ~350m people has ~20k deaths from the flu each year, while china with ~1.5b people only has ~18?
by philliphaydon 6y ago
Do you accept that America with ~350m people has ~20k deaths from the flu each year, while china with ~1.5b people only has ~18?
- simonh 6y agoNo, I'm sure they severely under-report it, mainly because I doubt they have the data. Most people don't go near hospitals if they can possibly avoid it because it's so expensive. Still, assuming a consistent recording methodology, changes in recorded case numbers should still serve as a useful indicator of trends.
- philliphaydon 6y ago> Most people don't go near hospitals if they can possibly avoid it because it's so expensive. Still, assuming a consistent recording methodology, changes in recorded case numbers should still serve as a useful indicator of trends. In china? The difference is that outside of china, if you die, it's reported as something like "died of heart attack bought on by influenza virus", or "died of complications caused by influenza virus", etc. In china, if you have /any/ underlying condition, the reported death is the underlying condition, not influenza.