Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
by darkerside on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:52PM
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I feel like you misunderstand the meaning of "implies", which is to suggest without explicitly saying. I think it is reasonable to assume that social distancing measures would have a similar effect, and in the absence of other data, the best estimate might be to assume they are proportional.
Fortunately there are a couple of other answers in thread that answered this at a level of detail that I could understand.
No, not even close.
> this implies that COVID deaths are also likely to have been reduced to ~1% from what they would have been without said measures
I don't think it implies that. There is nothing that says that the anti-COVID measures are about as effective at preventing spread of COVID as spread of flu.
> 500K deaths
Closer to 600k :(
This is among 32MM cases reported to the CDC, probably more like 80MM cases total.
Ignoring lots of factors, our ceiling for COVID is more like 4-10x what we've experienced, not 100X.