Alan, sorry for your loss.AB Hammer wrote:This whole thing has been a pain
But I wonder what is the flu death counts. I am having trouble finding any.
I had lost one cozen from the virus, so it is real, but I wonder about the real count of deaths.
The correct number is tricky and depends on testing and reporting (both over- and under-reporting).
But to get an idea you can look at trends and see what might be the added mortality rate of Covid-19 (or indirectly by Covid-19 because of healthcare priorities) on top of what 'normal' flu (Influenza) demands.
Besides Agor's link you can look at the CDC.
Here the trend and deviation of (reported and tested) deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in the USA.
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
As another random example to get an idea on the severity:
On the Dutch ArcGis Dashboard we have an unfiltered who-knows-how-that-came-to-be look at the national death-rate.
Link: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboar ... 4029bf6251
In the top-right graph section select the tab named "CBS Sterftecijfers"
In blue you can see an influenza death-spike of 2018 around week 10
The apple-green spike at week 30 is a heat-wave in 2019.
Orange is what's happening now in the Netherlands.