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> The flu season is typically about 8 months. A weekly death rate of 0.1 per 100k over 8 months would be 3.5 per 100k. That's still depressingly high, and the
by marricks 5y ago
> The flu season is typically about 8 months. A weekly death rate of 0.1 per 100k over 8 months would be 3.5 per 100k.
That's still depressingly high, and the 0.1 rate doesn't is before July 17th, so wouldn't really account for the Delta variant? COVID is no joke.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoHow is 1/3 of a number that the vast majority of people don't even blink at "depressingly high"?
- marricks 5y agoDelta was the dominant variant only by end of July so the data set for the 0.1 number could have been based mostly on a virus which is 2.5x less deadly. We're now facing an endemic virus which, even with vaccination, approaches (or could get as bad as) the deadliness of the flu.