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To: Nero Germanicus
You can only measure what you know about....For 2019-2020 seasonal flu the latest estimates are 80,000 cases and 1,100 deaths equals 0.013%.

Then are your stats on flu deaths based upon estimates? And as said, death rates based upon only tested cases for Covid provide a specious picture of its legality, for the reasons given,]. Meanwhile there are far more than 1,100 deaths by the flu, for in your post above they are the wrong ones (you confused Covid deaths as of 4-26 with those of the flu.

As of March 26, more than a half million people around the world have contracted COVID-19, and nearly 24,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University's real-time tracker. In the US, nearly 80,000 cases have been confirmed, and more than 1,100 people have died.

This year's flu season is shaping up to be possibly less severe than the 2017-2018 season, when 61,000 deaths were linked to the virus. However, it could equal or surpass the 2018-2019 season's 34,200 flu-related deaths.

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year.

Currently there are 134,375 deaths globally attributed to Covid.

65 posted on 04/15/2020 4:34:24 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

The coronavirus death totals are from confirmed deaths where there is an attending physician signed death certificate. The seasonal flu numbers are CDC estimates.
As with all illness, someone has to diagnose it in order to treat it. So you are correct that “coronavirus cases” mean someone has diagnosed the illness, usually via testing. But COVID-19 is such that some people have died so suddenly that there wasn’t time for a test: Severe symptoms, on a respirator in ICU, and death.
“A New York Doctor Who Died After Fever and Cough Was Never Tested for Coronavirus, Highlighting the Limits of the Official Toll”
https://time.com/5818062/new-york-doctor-coronavirus-death-toll/


66 posted on 04/15/2020 6:55:44 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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