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COVID-19 is so far an entire order of magnitude ahead of flu for the season, and COVID-19 is still going strong. You could hardly be farther from correct! In t
by pwinnski 6y ago
COVID-19 is so far an entire order of magnitude ahead of flu for the season, and COVID-19 is still going strong. You could hardly be farther from correct!
In the US, the CDC recorded 15,620[0] deaths due to flu for the last season. We are already ten times that for COVID-19 and still losing people every day.
They extrapolate from the 15,620 confirmed deaths that many more deaths are due to the flu but not tested as such, and so they estimate a range that centers around 42,000 for the last year. That range is still less than one-third of COVID-19's known minimum, and a check of "excess death" figures suggests that next year, the CDC will have a similar statistical model suggesting deaths are several times higher than we know right now.
Again, you are off by anywhere from 10 to 30 times.
[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...