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Old 06-29-2020, 10:09 PM
Scott h Scott h is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Osky View Post
Wait a minute. According to statisca.com the average daily death toll from flu/influenza 2019-2020 in the US Is 331 per day. Covid yesterday was 285 deaths nationwide and has been dropping for some time now.

Osky
If you take the CDC's numbers they have an estimate of 24,000-36,000 influenza deaths for a 12 month period ending April 2020. That works out to 2000-3000 persons a month.
So far Covid19 has killed 130,000 for 5 months, which works out to over 25000 people a month in the US.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden...-estimates.htm