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People on the other side would state, well the figures were worse at the beginning, and turned out not to be that bad. Isn't the yearly fatalities from flu still over 500,000.
If the flu would give you yearly fatalities of 500,000, you should really consider getting a working health care system... Thats a IFR of 0.15%, about five times higher as in the rest of the world (0.04%). When a really bad influenza virus is going around, we get 70,000 deaths in EU, despite having about 100,000 citizens more than the USA.
Also, the CDC says something else about the seasonal flu:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
BTW, the (rather high) global estimate for the IFR of COVID-19 is 1.04%. Which includes countries with really poor health care system. Yes, if your health care system would be that bad, this means 1% of the US population will die in the pandemic. Thats almost 3.5 million people.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.20098780v1
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