2017 : The Forgotten Statistic
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/least-80-000-people-died-flu-last-winter-u-s-n913486
Shall we draw any conclusions ?
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/least-80-000-people-died-flu-last-winter-u-s-n913486
Shall we draw any conclusions ?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
I’ve said this before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in. Covid-19 has resulted in the deaths of twice as many people as an average flu season in the UK. The flu season is Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb – other months account for a small fraction. In 4 weeks (early March to early April) Covid-19 killed as many as flu does in 4 months. It’s now killed 10-20 thousand more (number uncertain due to the time-lag in registering all the deaths outside hospital). Without total lockdown Covid-19 would have killed 10 times as many people. The logarithmic rise in case numbers was stopped. If we had done nothing and waited for ‘herd immunity’ we would see almost a million dead – in our ‘little’ country. Price worth paying ? Really ?
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Yes it has sunk in NS . Your charts made the point very well.
I forgot to offer condolences for your losses as well.
I agree we needed to lock down to keep the curve flat.
This article merely points out that the flu can be just as deadly . Some seasons are much worse than “normal”
2017 in the USA saw a similar death pattern from the flu …twice as many as in a normal season.
I for one was not aware of this.
Apologies if I sounded a bit condescending, I didn’t mean to Fully. Thanks for your thoughts. What I constantly go back to, is that 98 of our front line healthcare workers have died from Covid-19 in the last 6 weeks or so. Flu NEVER does that. In addition, we don’t lockdown for flu, and it takes 17,000 lives in the UK each season. Without lockdown, Covid-19 would have taken hundreds of thousands of lives here. I don’t see how the two can be compared.