One thing I found interesting about this ‘normal’ flu season is, “ hospitalizations are “the highest CDC has on record” for young children, up to age 4, and adults ages, 18-49.” (see March 25 link below)
According to the CDC, regular flu has killed approx. 11K people in the US this year ( see the ranges below from 4800 deaths by mid-Jan to 20k est). Covid has killed 2,497 this year in the US, and 33,976 world-wide. Flu season is over; Covid ‘season’ hasn’t peaked here yet.
so far in Calif, we are at 516 flu deaths. Our virus deaths right now are 101. That puts us 20% over usual hospital load. But more than that, instead of being spread over 4 months like flu season, it’s in one month. So if hospitals are used to say 125/flu/mo, then 100 more coming in is 100% more beds needed yesterday and it starts getting hairy.
Feb numbers for NY were about 1600 hospitalized for flu. They’ve had 686 virus deaths on top of that. So you can figure a few thousand hospitalized but not dying. So just in beds for the deceased it’s a 200 % increase, and all needing a higher level of care than ‘just flu’, all at once.
Jan 7
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been about 9.7 million flu cases across the United States so far this season, with 87,000 hospitalizations and 4,800 deaths.”
March 6
The CDC has recorded at least 34 million flu illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 20,000 deaths from flu — 136 of which were children, according to data ending the week of Feb. 29. ...In California, there have been 516 Influenza-coded deaths [to date]
https://patch.com/california/malibu/second-wave-flu-full-swing-flu-report-california
March 22
So far this year, there have been at least 9.7 million cases of the flu (influenza), at least 87,000 flu-related hospitalization, and up to 12,000 deaths, according to the CDC.
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/perspective-on-influenza-and-the-coronavirus/
March 25
There have been about 23,000 deaths from flu during the 2019-2020 season, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...The CDC estimates there have been 38 million flu illnesses and 390,000 hospitalizations
March 25
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7,428 deaths from the flu were confirmed by a lab test for that virus in 2019. If you add in the 3,771 test-confirmed deaths already tallied in 2020, the total number of deaths that can be definitively tied to the flu is 11,199.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-flu-comparison-trump/
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