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Originally Posted by psyang
Who is using the article improperly?
One person in this thread referenced the article to say that it would have been valuable to combat the idea that covid was "just the flu". Nothing about attributing all 15 million deaths directly to covid. The article seems to show that covid wasn't just the flu. I don't see how it was used improperly.
The article even referenced 6 million deaths attributed directly to covid, the same number you quoted. Global flu mortality is between 200-650k per year, so say 400k-1.3 million over the two year span. That's still 1/5 of covid's number. So even using direct deaths, the article shows that covid wasn't just the flu.
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Yes, but that is not what the article is about. To say that they wished they had these numbers to counter the flu argument is misuse of the article.