Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.
How many deaths were there in 2023?
Okay, so according to CDC Wonder a search for top 15 Leading Causes of Death for 2023 brings Covid in at #10 with 49,872 which really only gives us a starting point because that's only including deaths that are properly coded for covid, which we know is not happening in many places. Excess mortality rates are still running at like 5% even after millions dead which should be a major red flag.
You'd think that'd be an easy number to find, wouldn't you?