I would also note that social distancing where you and your signifant other are stuck inside 24/7 will have other collateral impacts in the fourth quarter:
Do you have a link to those pages? Please share. Many thanks!
USC medical team at ER and urgent care just published an article in JAMA about the drop in flu diagnoses in January through March duing the rise in cases of SARS2. I don’t have a link, sorry.
Bump for later
Let’s add the two total death counts and compare to other Flu Seasons?
Trump could be saving more from the Flu.
I would also note that social distancing where you and your signifant other are stuck inside 24/7 will have other collateral impacts in the fourth quarter:
Actually that is a rather mild flu season fatality number.
Either 2017-2018 or 2018-2019 saw 61,000 die in the U.S., don't remember which one.
/Tinfoil Hat on
Maybe they're just calling all colds and flu Covid-19 to bump up the numbers and justify the artificial hysteria and pandemic panic.
/Tinfoil Hat off
Interesting, and more good news.
Because of COVID-19 doctors, nurses, and hospital staff are now using the sterilization procedures they should have been using in the past and all along.
One thing we're hopefully going to get from this is hospitals will STRICTLY ENFORCE proper patient-to-patient hygiene. If they do we'll likely see fewer deaths in hospitals from cross contamination.
No more going to the hospital for hernia surgery and dying from hepatitis.
The hygiene and social distancing widely adopted to lessen exposure to COVD-19 also lessen exposure to the flu. Since COVID-19 is so phenomenally more contagious than the flu, it is spreading like wild even as flu transmission is diminished.
If there were no longer a China, would we still have an annual flu bug, seemingly a different, more virulent one each year?
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus. Nobody had immunity to it. For that reason it’s able to spread at a time that other respiratory viruses begin to wane.
A good analogy is that it’s a wildfire in a forest that hasn’t been managed, and drought conditions present
Why is Washington state NOT testing 100% of the patients with those symptoms?
Unknown - since we do more COVID-19 tests per capita than any other state in the country. 65,000 tests, as of last Friday.
Last week, I was browsing through Departments of Health in various states. One them - I think Connecticut - has the official state policy to “assume” that all cases of respiratory infection are related to COVID-19.
I have no idea if they are reporting their numbers that way.
My new avenue of curiosity is HOW causes of death are recorded.
There’s a very interesting series of articles by a Dr. John Lee, writing in the UK spectator, about exactly this.
He explores the possible reasons why Italy has a death rate for COVID-19 that is 10X that of Germany.
Your number is too low.
According to the CDC...
24,000 to 62,000 - From October 2019 to late March 2020.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
I read not long ago that their tests couldn’t differentiate between the flu and the coronavirus...Maybe they’re counting the flu as the new virus...
Did they actually all die of the flu or did some justhappen to have the flu when they died?
Here’s the connection. People are being more careful to avoid infection, and the flu is less contagious than SARS-COV-2. There’s no grand, all-encompassing conspiracy, and the Martians aren’t landing here...yet.