Hey, everybody, the CDC says we should stop eating raw cookie dough because 18 people were sickened.
Meanwhile, keep breathing in #COVID19 in big crowded spaces without a mask. It's only hospitalized 422,000 and killed 38,000 Americans so far in 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/25/raw-cookie-dough-salmonella-illness/
@StevenBarnhart Your data is incorrect. To compare apples to apples, here is the data from the CDC since October 1 (which is when flu season starts):
Flu deaths: 19,000 – 58,000
Flu hospitalizations: 300,000 – 650,000
COVID deaths: 100,000
COVID hospitalizations: 800,000
What makes someone enter someone else's thread with fake information that is easily disproven? Get informed before picking fights.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_cumulativehospitalizations_select_00
@augieray you aren’t being honest. The CDC estimates are only until April. So doing that math:
Deaths: 1128364-1058825 = 70k
Hospitalizations: 6,134,177 - 5,367,647 = 766k
Where did you get 100k deaths?
Not that different from the flu.
@StevenBarnhart Also untrue.
WHO ended the global health emergency but warned: "The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that COVID-19 is nothing to worry about." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01577-x
A CDC study just warned that adults who aren’t current on their COVID boosters have "relatively little remaining protection" against hospitalization. https://www.foxnews.com/health/most-us-adults-declining-covid-boosters-cdc-warns-health-risks-relatively-little-protection
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