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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by m0zg on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#24851533)
Wrong hill to die on, bud. 60M people got infected with Swine Flu, and nobody even thought of shutting anything down. Why? Because it was about as deadly as regular flu. So yes, deaths are the right metric to track.
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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:29PM (#24852948)
Completely irrelevant. There were an estimated 274k hospitalizations from swine flu, over the course of that year. So swine flu did not have the characteristics I specified.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by blmsjw on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:32PM (#24853455)
"estimated 274k hospitalizations" - remind me again how widespread the swine flu tests were in comparison to COVID?
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