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Flu didn't kill 500 people last week (using USA numbers here).
by sp332 4y ago
Flu didn't kill 500 people last week (using USA numbers here).
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- jleyank 4y agoWell, this winter there will be a flu season as nobody has the patience to mask, wash handed or keep distance. Hope they guess right on the shots. Guess the Asian nations had a good handle on fighting respiratory sicknesses with their traditional mask usage.
- Grim-444 4y agoCDC estimates of flu deaths in the US per year: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html For the 2019-2020 year, there was an estimated 20,000 deaths for an average of 384 per week. For the 2018-2019 year, there was an estimated 28,000 deaths for an average of 538 per week. For the 2017-2018 year, there was an estimated 52,000 deaths for an average of 1,000 per week. So, yes, that is exactly how much the flu kills every week, on average. In a bad flu year, like the 2017-2018 year, the flu kills twice as many as that.