First the CDC instructed doctors to list as dying from Covid-19, anyone who died with any symptoms of the C-virus wether tested or suspected, I wonder if that was the case with H1N1 in 2009 or any other previous epidemic.
And I think this methodology will be "close enough", in the vast majority of cases.
I wonder if that was the case with H1N1 in 2009 or any other previous epidemic.
Probably not, because it didn't cause nearly the damage this thing is causing.
This thing is in a different class than the last several outbreaks of other diseases.