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Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with... by badfrog on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:44PM (#22930620)
> year-to-date, about 1300 people died each day of the flu.

That seems impossible. CDC estimates 61k flu deaths in 2017-2018 and 34k in 2019-2020: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

That is nowhere near 1.3k per day.

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Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with... by perl4ever on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:00PM (#22930735)
You are right, my point would have been much stronger with the correct figures.
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