CDC Provisional Covid-19 Death Count

originally posted by: froglette
a reply to: carewemust

So, the number of people who have been Covid-19 coded and died is 24,555.

Then, they are lumping in all pneumonia, and influenza for the official number of 51,949

Provisional death counts are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics as of April 24, 2020.

I looked back on the 2014-2015 flu season. That was the year that everyone in my house got a flu type bug. There were 7 of us living in the house at that time. We all got sick, my husbands heart got so overworked and damaged with this bug that he is still in heart failure with EF of 23%. None of us went to the hospital right away and my husband didn't find out about his heart for 3 more months. Anyway, that's why I looked at the 2014-2015 season.

Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System

The week ending on April 24, 2015 (week 16) had 51,608 deaths attributed to the flu.

Just makes you think.

With my husband, we are all paranoid and clean everything before it comes into the house, we all wear masks when going out, and do hand hygiene. But, we do go out. He goes out.

I'm not going to call it a nothing burger, but I think the U.S. has gone on over drive. No one knew what was coming, or how it would effect the hospitals. Now the numbers are coming in and it seems like another flu type illness.

The simple answer is this reaction was political .

I dont even really buy into politics I think its just an act.

But hypothetically politically the Left could obviously gain tremendous amounts of ground by playing Covid-19 to the extreme like they did, tank the economy and blame it all on the Trump Administration .

Smooths the way for Socialism, and gives the 2020 or 2024 Democrat candidate more than enough leverage, but of course it could always back fire life after all is rather unpredictable at times.