JAMA Intern Med. Published online May 14, 2020 – An article discussing the difference between the statistics on influenza deaths and covid-19. <\/p>\n
Assessment of Deaths From COVID-19 and From Seasonal Influenza<\/a> ————————————————————— Michael McAleer, PhD(Econometrics),Queen’s | Asia University, Taiwan JAMA Intern Med. Published online May 14, 2020 – An article discussing the difference between the statistics on influenza deaths and covid-19. Assessment of Deaths From COVID-19 and From Seasonal Influenza by Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS1; Carlos del Rio, MD ————————————————————— Comments: Daniel Goyal, MRCP, PhD | Gibraltar Health Authority I welcome this clear … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2148,2520,13,15,17],"tags":[2482,2636,2638,2637],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4082","6":"format-standard","7":"category-it-failures","8":"category-obituaries","9":"category-pandemic","10":"category-politics","11":"category-science","12":"category-thinking-about","13":"post_tag-covid-19","14":"post_tag-deaths","15":"post_tag-public-health","16":"post_tag-seasonal-influenza"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS1; Carlos del Rio, MD<\/p>\n
\nComments:
\nDaniel Goyal, MRCP, PhD | Gibraltar Health Authority
\nI welcome this clear and succinct account of reality. A useful reminder too, that simply increasing the denominator will not lower the total number of deaths.
\nMany thanks <\/p>\n
\nThe invaluable and informative Viewpoint by two experts compares the officially documented weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths with the estimated weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths, with an emphasis on the serious threat to public health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"