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ProfessorGAC

(65,382 posts)
5. Like The Flu
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 07:28 PM
Jan 2022

Typical year for the flu, per the CDC is 12-18k deaths per year.
365 days a year, so at the low end 33 deaths per day, at the upper end of the range about 49 per day.
We have lived with that level of risk of the flu, including of course available vaccines, for decades.
Flu is just a part if life at this point.
If(!) COVID gets to that point, we'll consider it too, a fact of life.
Geez, it's killing 1,500-1,800 per day & half the population considers in a fact of life now.
We get down to a fortieth of that & we'll all just live with the presence of it as endemic to our lives.

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