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JRPGfan on 12 October 2020
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EricHiggin said:
SvennoJ said:
Comparable to the flu again?

CDC estimates about 56,000 Americans die from the flu each year. Covid-19 already claimed over 219,000 lives in the USA, that with maybe 10% infected.

The highest estimate for Flu world wide seems to be 650K
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/
Worldwide over 1 million have already died from Covid-19 while only 10% (might) have had it.

What will a direct comparison covering the same time frame show when it comes to flu deaths vs covid? Odds are beyond unlikely that the U.S. is going to end up with around 60,000 flu death's again, plus 220,000+ covid death's. The point being, it's all but certain, that some of those unfortunate souls, who would've statistically died from the flu, are going to have died from covid instead. How many that is exactly who knows? How does that apply worldwide?

Actually in Denmark because of all the handwashing, people keeping distance to one another, we've had unsually mild flu cases/deaths.
So much so that we re currently on a 6 year low, in terms of avg deaths pr year. Also doctors have warned about flu + corona, and highly recammended the elderly to go get their flu shots (which more than usual have done).

Mild Corona cases (fatalities) and unsually low Flu year numbers = lowest death rates in 6years+ time.

Hopefully it stays like that, as we re heading into the flu season.

There was actually a article about it, I read today, which made me reply to this question of yours.

https://www.bt.dk/samfund/danmark-har-det-laveste-antal-doede-i-seks-aar