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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.

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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)

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