Comparing Flu and COVID-19 deaths. Today, 07:41 PM by Ronan Kelly, FluTrackers
For the past several years, I have been plotting and comparing week to week influenza mortality data gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance system. The number of coded flu deaths per year is only a part of the estimated flu deaths each week. I added US coronavirus deaths by week to the plot and got this:
THIS is the chart that the flubros need to see.
Great work there...
No, see they’ve got that explained.
Those people died of heart attacks, pneumonia, cancer and what have you.
They would have died anyways.
They just so happened to have CV.
You know, only 2 people have died of this CV in Italy...
FluBro Comment #2: Well, if the scale didn’t go up so high, it wouldn’t look so bad.