U.S. Flu Deaths, 2019-2020: 23,000-59,000
March 24, 2020
THE coronavirus is not nearly as deadly as the flu.
The Centers for Disease Control, the government agency which monitors health events nationwide, estimates that between 23,000 and 59,000 people in the United States died of the flu between October 1, 2019 and March 14, 2020. Most flu deaths, as is the case with the coronavirus, involve people suffering from other serious health conditions or in advanced old age. It’s not much of a consolation perhaps to look at this high number of flu deaths, but the flu is just one way that people who are weak die and we have lived with this reality for many years. The population of the United States is 327 million, so these numbers of flu deaths are relatively low. I mean, people do die.
Beware of the figures in the media!
They are not counting the undiagnosed people with coronavirus when comparing mortality rates of the flu and coronavirus.
