@thatkatharine
Article behind paywall unfortunately
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/us-winter-flu-deaths-outpace-covid-for-first-time-in-five-years

@drayde @thatkatharine did you miss the part where long covid is disabling a significant portion of the people who get it even if they don't die? Try linking this to the tens of millions of people in the US alone with long covid and see if they care one whit about this statistic

@vikxin @drayde @thatkatharine this image also probably isn't counting things like young seemingly healthy people having mysterious heart attacks and strokes (after they got COVID 4 or 5 times)... Or any of the deaths of people with long COVID who would have gotten through some injury or other illness otherwise

@raphaelmorgan @drayde @thatkatharine I'm under the impression most places just stopped checking for COVID in general, so there are probably a LOT of unreported COVID deaths. The drop off on that chart is...suspect, to say the least.