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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by mcguire on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:29PM (#23227279)
CDC: In the US, the flu has killed 12,000-61,000 per year over the last decade. According to the worldometer page, COVID19 has killed 91,000. Since January.

WHO: (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...) Worldwide, flu causes 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory deaths. Worldometer reports 316,000 COVID19 deaths. Since January. And I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that is off on the low side. But it's still early.

Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by Izkata on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:57AM (#23231383)
> According to the worldometer page, COVID19 has killed 91,000. Since January.

Not quite. The first death in the US was Feb 29. On March 31, it was only 5151.

So ~91k deaths over 2.5 months, or ~86k deaths over 1.5 months. (...I'd probably go with the first just to encompass infection time)

Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by zeku on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:28PM (#23227955)
If you're going to spout nonsense that runs counter to the government's official tally, at least cite your source.
Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by hayez1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:46PM (#23228143)
Are you forgetting that US hospitals are marking people who are dying of alcohol poisoning and heart disease as Covid deaths? Even when they are not tested! (https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavir...)
Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by wwweston on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:35PM (#23230770)
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/14/candace-ow... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-p...

Many doctors think there's actually an undercount as they discover ways in which the disease can present differently than severe respiratory distress, or look at guidelines that may have led to incorrectly ruling out a case.

Of course, be sure to save some of that skepticism for ways in which a fee-for-service medical system can bend treatment large and small when this is all over.