Tweet from ByMikeBaker at August 08, 2021 at 08:52AM

Coronavirus deaths are rising again. Compared to months past, the numbers may look low. But:

The current pace of ~500 new covid deaths per day would bring 180,000 deaths in a year. That’s 3 times more deaths than the worst flu season of the past decade.

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— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker)
Aug 8, 2021

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