One in ten US deaths last week were due to pneumonia, flu, or COVID-19.

That's about a 50% higher rate than the CDC's epidemic threshold.

Bottom line: this country is in the midst of a severe respiratory disease epidemic that nobody's talking about.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report

Learn more about the weekly influenza surveillance report (FluView) prepared by the Influenza Division.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
@escott Probably more like a severe nutrition epidemic.
@Gundam_net @escott I eat extremely healthy. I’ve been on a whole food plant based diet since 2010. I got covid before anyone was wearing a mask and have had long covid since March 2020. Diet and sleep play a role in immunity but it doesn’t make you immune from infection and blaming someone’s diet for catching covid is just not right.
@MickisMom @Gundam_net Agreed. Very few of us operate at peak physical health; and even if we did, we'd still get sick. Microbes have numbers and some pretty effective strategies on their side.