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bpodgursky on March 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Back-of-the-envelope estimates of next quarter’s u...

I don't mean to suggest that this won't be worse than the flu when all is done, but you're comparing global COVID-19 deaths to US-only flu deaths (US COVID deaths are about 3,000 right now, not 37,000).

SeyelentEco on March 31, 2020 [–]

I misread the data. I assumed it was global, but it was US only data I was looking at.

akvadrako on March 31, 2020 | [–]

For the record global flu deaths some years are about 600k.

There is a good chance the lockdowns are saving more lives due to the normal flu then covid.

https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html

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