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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by EricE on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:44PM (#30195767)
COVID isn't deadly like rabies either. Indeed COVID is turning out to be less deadly than the flu for the vast majority of people, especially the more recent variants. While being far more virulent they are also far less likely to make one seriously ill, let alone kill.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by wolverine876 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:40PM (#30197663)
Over 800,000 people have died in the US alone, more than any other event in US history.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by hnuser847 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:22PM (#30198251)
It wasn't. Heart disease and cancer kill far more people on an annual basis and nobody bats an eye. According to the CDC, these were the top 10 causes of death in 2020[1]:

* Heart disease: 696,962

* Cancer: 602,350

* COVID-19: 350,831

* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 200,955

* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 160,264

* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 152,657

* Alzheimer’s disease: 134,242

* Diabetes: 102,188

* Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,544

* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 52,547

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by triceratops on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:38PM (#30199272)
> Heart disease and cancer kill far more people on an annual basis and nobody bats an eye

I mean there are massive institutes, companies, and laboratories engaged in research on both these topics, tons of fund-raising, campaigns to improve diet and exercise, shockingly expensive treatments and so on. Other than all of that, yes, nobody bats an eye.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by kingsloi on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:29PM (#30198345)
all are lower than 800,000
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by hnuser847 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:39PM (#30198491)
The 800,000 figure spans two years. The above figures are for one year (2020).
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Nemrod67 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:58PM (#30197913)
2M people die every year in the USA, is that more than any other event in History?

such lunacy

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by robflynn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:09PM (#30198049)
They clearly mean from one specific event. What one event in the USA has lead to 2 million deaths? You're combining all deaths and treating it as if it were the same thing.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by JacobThreeThree on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:00PM (#30198758)
>You're combining all deaths and treating it as if it were the same thing.

Couldn't that be applied to deaths from other diseases? Why wouldn't all influenza deaths be considered one event by this standard?

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by robflynn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:06PM (#30198852)
No? Are we in an influenza pandemic or epidemic right now? Again, we're talking about events here.

There have been six of them in the last 140 years with respect to influenza. The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 675k (in the USA, like 50 mil worldwide or something wild like that.)

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:48PM (#30198595)
Any other event in US history.

If you're so sure, name one.

Civil war was less than a million, by the way.

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