[DouglasKC]

Those were US numbers. NOBODY has yet died of CoVid-2019 in the USA. I’d like to know how many died of the Flu WORLDWIDE in 2017.

Me too. WHO data shows this for 2016:

Lower respiratory infections are composed of many factors including pneumonia. But the flu is NOT a lower respiratory infection. The flu is not in the top ten.

The corona virus targets the lower respiratory system which is why it leads to more pneumonia than the flu.

[DouglasKC]

Interestingly in poor countries the number one cause of death is lower respiratory infections:

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