[seieste]

Italy is recording a death every four minutes. The annual flu doesn't even come close to that.

[easytiger]

That's not true necessarily. Italy has had this outlier before

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

Highlights

- In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%. - More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period.