04-10-2020, 11:35 AM
Incidentally, the Hill just noted that just from Sunday-Wednesday of this week, more New Yorkers have died of COVID-19 (officially, 2,906) than died on 9/11. That got me wondering how many New Yorkers die of the flu in a given year: per the CDC, a total of 4,517 New Yorkers died of flu and pneumonia combined in 2017.
To which I will again ask: if New York is likely to have as many COVID-19 deaths in one week as it has in combined flu and pneumonia deaths in one year, how can anyone credibly argue this virus yields outcomes no worse than the flu?
To which I will again ask: if New York is likely to have as many COVID-19 deaths in one week as it has in combined flu and pneumonia deaths in one year, how can anyone credibly argue this virus yields outcomes no worse than the flu?