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It was #3 in 2020 even though widespread testing only started in March. Seriously frightening stuff. Imagine if we went from zero heart disease or zero cancer d

It was #3 in 2020 even though widespread testing only started in March. Seriously frightening stuff. Imagine if we went from zero heart disease or zero cancer deaths to present numbers in the span of one year... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm

dragontamer 5y ago
Heart disease and cancer aren't even singular diseases. Hell, even the Flu is a combination of diseases: TypeA, TypeC, etc. etc. Even Flu-TypeA is a combination of different diseases: H3N2 (Bird Flu) and H1N1 (Swine Flu) are both Flu-TypeA. For a singular disease + minor mutations (COVID19 vs B.1.1.7 vs P.1 extremely similar and covered by the same vaccine) to cause such a death count is pretty remarkable.