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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by _-___________-_ on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:59AM (#24717606)
The influenza season in the UK is typically October-May with the peak period December-March. So the 2020 number for influenza is a bit flawed given that it's missing 25% of the typical peak period and 3/8 of the whole influenza season.
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by titzer on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:07AM (#24717654)
You'd have to compare infection rates for the season peak to matter. Infection rates for influenza probably being an order of magnitude worse than Coronavirus in April, probably. But whatever, the mortality rate data is there in the table, too, if you care to look. Influenza death rate in January 5yr average was 4218, which is about 1.8x worse than April. That absolutely does not make up the 12x difference here.
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by tremon on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:10AM (#24717678)
The numbers for Jan-Aug don't include December for any previous year, so there's no flaw there.
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by _-___________-_ on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:16AM (#24717717)
The flaw is in comparing COVID-19's "season" with influenza's season while leaving out a full quarter of a typical influenza season.

To be clear: the flaw doesn't flip my interpretation of the results or anything, but it's still a glaring flaw that doesn't seem to be addressed in the article.

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