It’s because they can’t count.
Do you have more accurate numbers?
Please post from a primary source. We’ll wait.
“It’s because they can’t count.”
No. It’s because what data, and descriptions, are and are not required to be reported, not just to the CDC but to state agencies that try to monitor the data. Try to get the number of influenza caused deaths - seasonal flu - in just New York state. They don have it; it is not required to be reported as such. The only flu death data NY state has is on flu deaths for pediatric patients.
Yet, somehow, everyone is reporting actual data for Cov-19, while so much of the influenza data is squeezed out from between the lines of what is actually reported.