Posted on 02/26/2020 9:03:53 AM PST by DouglasKC
The CDC reports that only 6515 people in the United States died from Influenza.
Another chart contained in the pdf here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf
shows that 55,000 died from influenza AND pneumonia. So I'm assuming out of that 6515 is flu and the rest in pneumonia.
The flu can certainly lead to pneumonia which is why they may be grouped together. But not all pneumonia comes from the flu.
Question: Is the corona virus more likely or less likely to lead to pneumonia?
And we have 60,000,000 people infected, and right now we have 57 - definitely illustrates this Panic is Political.
It’s more likely that the 6515 number is in error. That number does not appear in the report you linked to. Only 55,672 for “Influenza and pneumonia.”
But I placed that same link on your vanity post yesterday where you accused Rush of lying on his show, yesterday.
Gee only 6000. Sucks for them.
I had the flu last year. Diognosed by test. Caught it on cruise ship. Last one I plan to be on.
Well, it obviously makes fair sense to track these numbers by “season” rather than Calendar Year [see Water Year used to track snowfall and its water equivalent].
So I’d expect that the CDC should have 2018-2019 flu season numbers available. [Maybe Schumers extra $6 Billion could speed up the process?]
Here’s the strange thing about all this. Me and my wife were talking at lunch. They are trying all kinds of things with this Coronavirus to save lives, experimental anti-virals, HIV drugs, just all kinds of stuff. Yet every winter a ton of folks die right here in America of Pneumonia and they don’t go to this extent, nowhere near it, they just let them die.
Why is that?
However I can see current Water Year, daily SWE data at any number of sites in the West:
https://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/snow/snowplot.cgi?BSKM8
Perhaps they have better people, or the data is easier to obtain. 8>)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
“CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.”
Seems the CDC numbers are inconsistent with the CDC numbers.
It's a government agency, what do you expect? Let's give them another 8.5 billion.
The operative word is "has resulted". Actual flu probably kill relatively few. But flu sometimes leads to other diseases, such as pneumonia, that result in death.
It was in the first link in the original post...it's not a mistake: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm
Scroll down the page a bit.
The error I refer to (6515) is likely an error on the page you linked to. The 55,672 number is in the PDF linked to at that page.
80,000 died in 2018.
The 55000 in the footnote is for flu and pneumonia combined.
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