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[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 9 fun12 insightful - 8 fun13 insightful - 9 fun -  (5 children)

covid19: that year when the flu was a bit worse than usual

[–]jelliknight 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

4x worse than normal in number of deaths in the USA so far, and we're only halfway through the year, and it's accelerating.

So 'quite a bit' worse than normal.

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A lot of pnemonia deaths were diagnosed as covid, which you can see in the corresponding humongous drop in pnemonia deaths as compared to every other year. So the overall number of deaths is not much different.

[–]jelliknight 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not true. Google 'excess mortality COVID'

[–]Hadroncollider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, the decrease in pneumonia death can be explained by the social distancing and stay at home measures that were eventually taken.

[–]FormosaOolong 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I'm stealing this