TennTradition
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Fair point but you missed the reason I ask. Don't trivialize death. There were 80 k deaths with a vaccine.
The answer is 15,620 lab-confirmed flu deaths in the 2017-2018 flu season.
The stated number for that season was 61k (not 80k - 2018-2019 was only 34k so I assume it is 17-18 you are talking about).
It is not trivializing deaths to include on the death certificate Probable COVID. For the record, the CDC is fine with the death certificate listing Flu and COVID when unknown. In fact, it is helpful to do this in order to track the epidemic real time. Death certificates and case histories will be reviewed later.
You have two states that I’m aware of who are even counting these probables - NY and MD. In MD 93 of their 1,140 deaths did not have a positive test. In NY, I do not have an exact number but I estimate it’s about 5,000-7,000 of their 23,780.