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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by dragonwriter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:43AM (#22914047)
> I wonder if we'll see a big drop in flu deaths

The flu season overlapped with a period that included initial reports and fear of a novel respiratory disease and then historic, mandatory countermeasures (for the vast majority of the population) against communicable respiratory disease; it would be bizarre if there wasn't a big drop in flu deaths.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by arcticbull on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:49AM (#22914279)
I meant in following years, as those who likely would have succumbed to the flu in following years succumb to COVID now. For the current period, there's absolutely no way flu, car and so on deaths don't plunge.
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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by dragonwriter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:04PM (#22919164)
Even in vulnerable groups, the case fatality rate doesn't seem high enough that it would make a big impact in future statistics for that reason (probably bigger impact through lasting behavioral changes.)
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