Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence

Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by bahwhatever on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:30AM (#24047581)

I'm so sick of this response. Deaths stack. People are dying of pollution AND coronavirus. Just because pollution also kills lots of people doesn't mean COVID-19 isn't killing lots of people. Furthermore, last I checked, I can't die of pollution just from being in the same room for 15 minutes with someone who is also dying of pollution.

It's possible to have multiple disasters at once.

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Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by jakeogh on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:05AM (#24047742)

(Table 1, col 4): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn... (these are not estimates, see the footnote)

  2015-2016
  Flu: 7,961
  Pneumonia: 131,858 
  All: 1,769,940

Excess deaths are the only accurate measure of a pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

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