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28/03/20

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Originally posted by bilbo35 ↑

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/

Until recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the annual mortality burden of influenza to be 250 000 to 500 000 all-cause deaths globally; however, a 2017 study indicated a substantially higher mortality burden, at 290 000-650 000 influenza-associated deaths from respiratory causes alone, and a 2019 study estimated 99 000-200 000 deaths from lower respiratory tract infections directly caused by influenza. Here we revisit global and regional estimates of influenza mortality burden and explore mortality trends over time and geography.

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We estimated an average of 389 000 (uncertainty range 294 000-518 000) respiratory deaths were associated with influenza globally each year during the study period, corresponding to ~ 2% of all annual respiratory deaths. Of these, 67% were among people 65 years and older. Global burden estimates were robust to the choice of countries included in the extrapolation model. For people
We have a Flu vaccine so why all those deaths?

Event 201 "When the crisis happens"

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I'm not a doctor, but don't we get different strains of flu every season? People die because it's nasty, it's just not in the same postcode as Covid-19.

A mortality burden - globally - potentially - at worst case, of 650,000? I'm not sure, am I reading it right? I hope to be proven wrong, but I think Indonesia all by itself will end up with more than 650,000 dead before we get to spring, much less Italy, the USA and the many other nations not properly prepared for the pandemic.
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