Tweet from DiseaseEcology at January 19, 2022 at 04:25PM

What is an “acceptable” # of COVID-19 deaths in US?
Lots of folks suggesting that post-omicron we can pretend we’re post-pandemic.
But 1K deaths/d = 365K deaths/yr
Flu avg is ~35K/yr
We need avg ~100deaths/day to get near flu
We’ve never had daily avg <225 since Mar 2020 https://t.co/cHDOMpfA8v

— A Marm Kilpatrick (@DiseaseEcology)
Jan 20, 2022

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