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It's all out there and if you have an open mind you quickly realize this is by far more dangerous than the "common flu" which we do have an annual vaccine for.
You're right. There is not a single shred of actual scientific data that upholds the wild idea that this is no more dangerous than "the common flu."
A couple of things about this:
1) The typical flu season in the U.S. runs for six months from December through May (peak months December - February).
2) The CDC now believes the first case of the coronavirus was diagnosed January 20th of this year. So, we're almost five months into this.
3) From 2010 - 2017, the CDC estimates that 12K to 79K people have died annually from influenza-related illness.
4) 5 months into the ongoing pandemic, over 115K HAVE died from Covid-19. I suspect that we might surpass 130K deaths by the six-month marker.
The flu numbers are estimated. That is, it is routinely assumed that the REPORTED deaths from flu are too low, so the number gets expanded by means of estimates. The estimated number is always higher than the reported number.
The estimated deaths from covid-19 are also higher than the reported numbers.
BUT whenever anyone compares flu deaths to covid-19 deaths, they compare the HIGHER estimated flu death numbers to the REPORTED covid-19 death numbers.
It's misleading and gives a false picture.
They should be comparing reported deaths to reported deaths, or estimated deaths to estimated deaths.
Comparing estimated flu deaths to reported covid-19 deaths, as I said, gives a completely false picture.
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