2500 people died from Coronavirus yesterday in the US, but 30,000 died of the flu each year. Not even close.
30,000 is an old number. The CDC counted over 70,000 flu deaths in 2018-2019, and around 80,000 in 2017-2018.
you can’t rely on any numbers because each state seems to count in a different way....take NYC for example....they’re counting without even a test....
In 10 days, at that rate, it will have caught up.
“2500 people died from Coronavirus yesterday in the US, but 30,000 died of the flu each year. Not even close.”
Not a true statement. The accuracy of the CDC annual flu numbers is very questionable and is based on estimates that have a range of double from low to high. They are nowhere near as accurate as the death numbers for this virus, which probably do err on the high side for people who would have died in the normal 8,000 per day death rate in the US.
The worst flu year (17-18) had a tally from two non CDC sources of 15,600 deaths for that flu season. My take is our count now is closer to the way that count was made ( see Fluvu numbers ).
When this is over the US Covid 18 death total will be close to 50,000, and more than a third will have been over 65 with other issues. It will have been the worst world-wide illness to date, but not the one predicted from the early Italian and NYC numbers.
The left will issue blame numbers and try to dump Trump while using the virus to refinance the top 8 0r 9 states that were hit the hardest; those being all Denocratic strongholds. The rest will have to pay from a very weak economy.