COVID-19 Is Nothing Similiar To The Flu

As we move closer to the June Eclipse the picture of the possible creation of the current coronavirus is slowly emerging.

The chart shows deaths per capita to allow for comparison of data from different years. Deaths are shown from:

COVID-19, starting from February 17. (COVID Tracking Project)

The 2017-18 flu season: This was the deadliest recent flu season. The chart shows one line for deaths attributed directly to flu and another for deaths attributed to either flu or pneumonia. The smaller line is an undercount of flu-caused deaths, the larger is an overcount, with the real number lies somewhere in between. The data begin on October 1, 2017, which the CDC considered the first week of that flu season. (CDC)

Heart disease and cancer: The first and second leading causes of death in the United States. The chart shows a total of 2017 deaths averaged per week. (CDC)

Car crashes: Weekly deaths beginning from January 1, 2018. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

1957-58 Asian flu pandemic: Weekly influenza and pneumonia deaths beginning from August 24, 1957. These data come from a contemporary CDC program that surveilled 108 American cities with a total population of about 50 million people. We have used that figure, rather than the total U.S. population at the time, to calculate deaths per million. (CDC)