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A comment on Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17). Parent comment

Re:Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17) by wk_end on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:33PM (#29618063)
...it’s 12k-50k per year. So just (“just”) one order of magnitude or so.
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Re:Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17) by mkolodny on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:13PM (#29621193)
Since June 2020, flu deaths have been in the single digits or teens most months, while covid deaths have been in the thousands or tens of thousands each month [0]. So covid is around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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