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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by pbourke on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:43PM (#28278558)
Has there been a flu season in recent history that caused the hospital system to collapse?
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by nradov on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:19PM (#28279087)
Hospitals in some areas were overwhelmed with influenza cases as recently as 2018.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by ethbr0 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:13PM (#28280586)
For reference, when I looked up the numbers, influenza hospitalizations (estimated, total annual US) vary from around 150,000 to 550,000, depending on the year and strain.

So yes, year to year has a lot of variance.

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