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by IronRanger 2031 days ago
Yes they do:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/01/24/Hospitals-overwhe...

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flu-demand-2018...

https://www.dispatchhealth.com/blog/ers-are-overwhelmed-with...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overwhelmed-by-flu-cases-some-e...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/flu-surveillance-c...

In Italy and Spain, aged care centres were abandoned by Eastern European workers fleeing the country before border closure, leaving residents ill cared for.

In New York, symptomatic patients were ordered back into aged care homes to free up hospital space.

These conditions would not have occurred without hysteria and excessive fear.

COVID in Sweden is about as deadly as the 2009 flu wave: https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Sweden is on track for an annual number of deaths in 2020 mostly the same as prior years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

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I’ll just point out the last one, because it’s terribly wrong, and how wrong it was pointed out in HN over the last couple of days itself.

Sweden, through early November, has as many deaths as it has had in its worst entire years before. And Swedens death numbers increase beyond the current year, as they attribute more deaths towards the previous year in the beginning of a year.

Sweden is on track to have 10-20% more deaths than normal.

There are no excess deaths apparent in October or November for Sweden: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country