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Isn't this also the case with the normal flu? 30,000-60,000 people die from the flu in the US every year. That averages out to 2,500-5,000 a month.
by thegrim33 6y ago
Isn't this also the case with the normal flu? 30,000-60,000 people die from the flu in the US every year. That averages out to 2,500-5,000 a month.
- TinkersW 6y agoThis is per day
- spaetzleesser 6y agoThis is daily, not monthly
- titzer 6y ago3,000 a day, not month.
- DamnYuppie 6y agoAlso it would be nice to see which of these COVID deaths actually had no co-morbidities. Basically how they account for it now, you could have advanced cancer and pneumonia and if you have traces of COVID in your system your death was definitely due to COVID.
- titzer 6y agoGot any evidence of this claim?
- ratsmack 6y agohttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-94percent-of-covid-19-deaths-had-underlying-medical-conditions/ar-BB18wrA7 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-94percent-of-co...
- supernovae 6y agoWhy? This doesn't change anything.
- majormajor 6y agoSo when you see hospitalization capacity reporting, do you think they're just lying, and that the hospitals were already full of these advanced cancer + pneumonia folks who now just happened to go and catch COVID too?
- lawn 6y agoIt's the daily death toll that exceeds the 9/11 death toll, not the monthly.
- nicoffeine 6y ago"Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC director says" It's right there in the headline. We are approaching a breaking point where more people will be dying not because we don't know how to save them, but because there are not enough health workers to attend to them. Wearing a mask and leaving home only when absolutely necessary is a simple thing we can all do to help save lives.
- jschwartzi 6y agoAnd not just the lives of people who get COVID in the future, but also the lives of people who contract other illnesses. Every COVID bed is a bed that can't be used to treat someone who would have otherwise gotten sick or injured, and that person will have to go somewhere. Early on in Washington when the Army was setting up temporary field hospitals, it wasn't to handle COVID patients, it was to handle the normal patients who would have otherwise gone to the regular hospital. What's messed up about this whole "crisis" is it's being framed as an individual choice to wear a mask. People make it sound like wearing a mask protects you somehow. And that's simply not true. I think in all this "individual freedom" sabre rattling someone is forgetting that you do not have the freedom to harm someone else. And your choice to not wear a mask is a choice to harm the people around you. So really choosing not to wear a mask is more like choosing to drive drunk, and you won't ever know how many people you kill.
- CivBase 6y agoThe article is talking about just daily deaths from COVID-19, not the overall daily death rate or the monthly COVID-19 death rate. Even on a good day, more people die in the United States than died of the 9/11 attacks (~3k) - just usually not of any single cause. In context... Approximately 655k Americans die of heart disease each year[0], which comes out to about 1.8k per day. Approximately 600k Americans die of cancer each year[0], which comes out to about 1.6k per day. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
- yellowapple 6y ago> 30,000-60,000 people die from the flu in the US every year. COVID eclipsed that within a couple months. By year's end it'll very likely have killed 10× that lower bound. And like others said: COVID's killing the same number of Americans per day that the flu kills in a whole month. The people who insist "it's just the flu" evidently need to brush up on elementary school arithmetic.