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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by president on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:15PM (#25084581)
No, it demonstrates overwhelming information asymmetry from what the general population is learning from mainstream media vs what the actual stats are. If you look at the actual CDC [1] COVID death count numbers, it is not much more than the annual flu death count. I don't fault the general public for this, it's the media trying to instill unnecessary fear among people.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by nemothekid on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#25084789)
The CDC publishes a number called excess deaths. It’s a number of how many people died versus the average. You can see the graph of excess deaths spike in March and continue to trend higher than the baseline. If this is just a “flu”, by your own words, can you please explain to me how did all these people die then?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by Sacho on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#25084778)
Am i misreading the stats? Deaths involving flu is at 6k, deaths involving covid without flu is at 100k.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by rrss on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:30PM (#25084850)
> it is not much more than the annual flu death count.

Which numbers on that page are you looking at? Here's what I see:

all deaths involving covid-19: 223,984

all deaths involving influenza, with or without covid-19 or influenza: 6,789

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