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The CDC publishes a number called excess deaths. It’s a number of how many people died versus the average. You can see the graph of excess deaths spike in March and continue to trend higher than the baseline. If this is just a “flu”, by your own words, can you please explain to me how did all these people die then?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Am i misreading the stats? Deaths involving flu is at 6k, deaths involving covid without flu is at 100k.

> it is not much more than the annual flu death count.

Which numbers on that page are you looking at? Here's what I see:

all deaths involving covid-19: 223,984

all deaths involving influenza, with or without covid-19 or influenza: 6,789