But coronavirus has killed at a much faster rate. The us death toll from coronavirus this year has now exceeded 62 000 surpassing the high end estimate for flu deaths. This cdc chart shows deaths from flu.
Share with email. April 16 2020 at 05 34 am. But the percentage of all deaths resulting from flu like illness and pneumonia shot up like a rocket.
There have been many reports coming in questioning the current covid 19 death rates. Has the world been cured of regular flu. The 2019 2020 regular flu season has been phenomenally great fewer deaths compared to the past six years.
The numbers in the chart represent how many. We also combined data from the 2017 18 and 2018 19 flu seasons which start in october in the cdc data to show the total number of deaths in 2018. The flu virus also mutates rapidly so people can.
The flu s death rate varies depending on the strains circulating each year. Two charts show how the diseases compare. The comparison is even more stark for people over 85.
On average in the us the flu s death rate is 1 while the coronavirus death rate is 5 2.
