[82lsju]

"The CDC, like many similar disease control agencies around the world, presents seasonal influenza morbidity and mortality not as raw counts but as calculated estimates based on submitted International Classification of Diseases codes.

Between 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the reported yearly estimated influenza deaths ranged from 23,000 to 61,000.

Over that same time period, however, the number of counted influenza deaths was between 3,448 and 15,620 yearly.

On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly 6 times greater than its reported counted numbers.

Conversely, COVID-19 fatalities are at present being counted and reported directly, not estimated. As a result, the more valid comparison would be to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaint...erm=051420

[82lsju]

"The CDC, like many similar disease control agencies around the world, presents seasonal influenza morbidity and mortality not as raw counts but as calculated estimates based on submitted International Classification of Diseases codes.

Between 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the reported yearly estimated influenza deaths ranged from 23,000 to 61,000.

Over that same time period, however, the number of counted influenza deaths was between 3,448 and 15,620 yearly.

On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly 6 times greater than its reported counted numbers.

Conversely, COVID-19 fatalities are at present being counted and reported directly, not estimated. As a result, the more valid comparison would be to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaint...erm=051420