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Same here. I live just north of NYC and it seems like pretty much everyone is getting covid. Luckily, mortality attributed to covid is continuing to decrease su

Same here. I live just north of NYC and it seems like pretty much everyone is getting covid. Luckily, mortality attributed to covid is continuing to decrease suggesting it's becoming less of an issue (in terms of deaths), but even with ~320 deaths a day, we're still looking at over 100k dying in the US every year of covid - despite the fact that a lot of the most vulnerable already died. I think we just have a new normal in terms of life expectancy and mortality :(

Grim-444 4y ago
Weren't we already in that same situation every year/decade prior to covid when between 20,000 and 50,000 would die from the flu each year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statistics_by_flu_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statis...
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago
  I think 20k/50k + an additional 100k from covid is pretty nasty, so I don't think it's the same at all. It's not like flu and covid are the same disease. I'm thinking covid will just add tens of thousands (or up to 100k like GP said). Sucks.
  - jessaustin 4y ago
    These groups intersect, so we can't just add the two numbers.
spfzero 4y ago
That is not "of Covid", it is "with Covid". We are still counting a Covid death for each person who has Covid at the time of death, regardless of what actually caused the death. Probably some of those people died exactly of Covid, but many died of at least two things, counting "having Covid" as one of the co-morbidities.