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P&I becomes PIC

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    Posted: October 11 2020 at 10:47pm

I occasionally look at the CDC flu pages https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ and I noticed that the graph for mortality for "pneumonia, influenza (P&I)" has become  "pneumonia, influenza, or COVID-19 (PIC) ",  So we need to add PIC to our list of abbreviations.


The graph shows a second peak and those deaths attributed to covid-19.  Interestingly the covid-19 deaths matched the first peak, but are well under the second peak.   As it is a time of very little flu in the USA this raises the possibility that covid-19 deaths are being under-reported in cases where there is pneumonia involved.  It does seem funny that unrelated pneumonia deaths follow exactly the same curve as covid-19 deaths. 


ps. this is one report that seems to be modified a lot as recent data is slow to filter through the system of reporting. So the far right going to zero can be ignored as most of the recent data would not yet have be collected.

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