If flu deaths were counted like COVID-19 deaths, the worst recent flu season evidently killed 15,620 Americans

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/912078/flu-deaths-counted-like-covid19-deaths-worst-recent-flu-season-evidently-killed-15620-americans

 

Faust, a Harvard Medical School instructor and emergency physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in Scientific American that he started wondering about the flu-to-COVID comparisons when it occurred to him that in nearly eight years of hospital work, "I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu." Neither had any of the colleagues he called around the country. So he did some research, and this is what he found:

The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths — that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus — has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]

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I love these stories.  So this guy attributes the flu death numbers to Trump?  I guess it is all his fault.  Regardless, this has already been discussed multiple times, all the numbers are subject to questions.  Even this expert attributes all the deaths with COVID to deaths from COVID.  There is a distinction that this Dr. fails to grasp.

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Colorado Gov Polis pushes back against CDC's coronavirus death counts
 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis pushed back against recent coronavirus death counts, including those conducted by the CDC, days after his own state’s health department acknowledged that their numbers had been inflated by including people who had the virus but died from other causes.

Colorado had previously said 1,150 people had died from COVID-19, but late Friday officials changed that number to 878.

 

“The CDC criteria include anybody who has died with COVID-19, but what the people of Colorado and the people of the country want to know is how many people died of COVID-19,” Polis told “Fox News Sunday.”

Inconsistencies in death counts have been happening on both the state and national level. As of Friday, Johns Hopkins University data counted 85,974 national COVID-19 deaths, while the CDC was reporting 83,947 that same day. There has been concern that even the CDC’s lower number may be artificially high.

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-gov-pushes-back-against-cdcs-coronavirus-death-counts