[ApplegateRanch]

Yes it would. It does with any disease. But what isn't confirmed, can't be reported can it?

OTOH, though 'not reported', individual cases are regularly being treated on a 'presumed' basis; and if any of those die, they ARE tested AND reported.

Therefore, deaths continue to be confirmed, presumed cases don't; that skews the mortality rate, in that 'confirmed cases' barely increase, while the number of 'confirmed deaths' continues to climb disproportionately.

[Brugmansian]

All of which is taken into account with this flu, other flu seasons and all other diseases. Which is why we see a WHO mortality rate of nearly 1% and projections of 0.5% elsewhere.

All they do is look at last year and going back ten years. Same methodology. Same bias. Is this year the same as those? No. Its worse.