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by fweespeech 2045 days ago
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

The estimate for this flu season is 24k to 62k deaths.

246k people have died from Covid so far, despite precautions.

Its a substantial difference.

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And flu season hasn't even started.

Covid hit after flu season, so those numbers are probably a better case scenario.