Flopper
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Yep - masking, social distancing and other mitigation has kept the flu at record lows this season. Also, more people than ever got a flu shot.
The number of people who die each year from flu-related causes in the U.S. is 8,200 to 20,000. SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control.
Nope, COVID ain't the flu
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
29,530,165
Deaths:
533,693
Recovered:
20,094,790
Wrong.
Past Seasons Estimated Influenza Disease Burden | CDC
These page includes information about the estimated burden of influenza from past seasons, including tables of the estimated influenza disease burden (and 95% credible interval [Cr I]) by age group.www.cdc.gov
The lowest seasonal flu death toll in the US has been 12,000 to 23,000, (in 2011), and the largest was 46,000 to 95,000, (in 2017).
So then the covid-19 average of only 30,000 per month is much less than seasonal flu, considering both the seasonal flu and covid-19 normally only last less than 2 months.
And these are the read CDC statistic, not your made up ones.