USA Flu kills more than Coronavirus

[swampratt]

The coronavirus has killed more than 800 people in china.
The Flu here in the USA has killed over 34,000 for the 2019 season.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/04/us-flu-still-elevated-dropping-deaths-high-57000

I wonder if people in china are scared to come here and get the Flu.

 

[MacFromOK]

The coronavirus has killed more than 800 people in china.
The Flu here in the USA has killed over 34,000 for the 2019 season.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/04/us-flu-still-elevated-dropping-deaths-high-57000

I wonder if people in china are scared to come here and get the Flu.

Kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

 

[Snattlerake]

USA USA USA USA!

 

[O4L]

The coronavirus has killed more than 800 people in china.
The Flu here in the USA has killed over 34,000 for the 2019 season.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/04/us-flu-still-elevated-dropping-deaths-high-57000

I wonder if people in china are scared to come here and get the Flu.

I knew the flu kills many more than the recent corona virus outbreak has but I didn't know the numbers were that high last year.

It looks like the numbers are much lower so far this flu season.

 

[Hangfire]

I had no idea that the flu kills that many people.....not that it's a guarantee of not catching the flu but I'm glad I always get a annual flu shot.

 

[Glock 40]

My guess those corona virus numbers could be reporting as little as 10% of actual numbers.

As for Flu in USA it kills people every day year round. Normally people with week immune systems or other issues already fall to flu. Plus people like Oncologist like to say their patients didn't die of cancer so instead its the flu or pneumonia or anything else they can find to say that their patients died from something other than what they were treating.

 

[SoonerP226]

Plus people like Oncologist like to say their patients didn't die of cancer so instead its the flu or pneumonia or anything else they can find to say that their patients died from something other than what they were treating.

That's a nice conspiracy theory, but I'm pretty sure the oncologist doesn't get to determine the cause of death.

 

[TerryMiller]

The coronavirus has killed more than 800 people in china.
The Flu here in the USA has killed over 34,000 for the 2019 season.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/04/us-flu-still-elevated-dropping-deaths-high-57000

I wonder if people in china are scared to come here and get the Flu.

Actually, I don't think so. When we were in Kanab, Utah for 9 months and working at an RV park, we would see tour buses with Chinese lettering going through town just about every day. They hook up with Chinese based tours that bring them to America and then drive them around to several national parks and other attractions.

It was interesting to see one of those tour buses pull into the MacDonald's across the street and 60 people get out and go inside. Later, we stopped in the MacDonald's for ice cream and I was amazed at how small it was inside, compared to what I've seen here in Oklahoma. I guess the Chinese don't mind being crowded into small places.

 

[cjjtulsa]

My guess those corona virus numbers could be reporting as little as 10% of actual numbers.

This. It's widely believed the Chinese are grossly underreporting the death toll from this; I mean, using logic - they have roughly 400 million people on some kind of lock down, over 800 deaths? I kind of doubt it. Their statistics don't justify their extreme actions.

 

[John6185]

A Chinese Doctor that was treating those with Coronavirus came down with it himself and has died. They are suppressing the actual story, the Chinese government does not want the masses up in arms because of the Coronavirus and the impact on it's economy. On that same subject, the ships that have been quarantined in ports more folks have come down with the virus which more than likely is because the passengers are in close proximity of each other, the ventilation system, the staff who are probably exhausted and want their nightmare to be over and they have grown complacent and stubborn passengers that will do anything to get out of their "rooms" and see daylight because "it isn't going to happen to them." I am of the belief that we haven't heard the last of this Coronavirus.