[OC] My friend believes that COVID-19 is overhyped, no worse than the flu, so I made this graph for him. Hopefully I am comparing apples to apples here like I intend to. Criticism is welcome, please tell me if the columns I am comparing here don't make sense to compare!

THErockinRobin on September 8th, 2020 at 00:04 UTC »

I am by no means an expert but work for a health insurance company doing claims based research and I will tell you, every single claim I have seen resulting in a death listed both Covid and Pneumonia in the diagnosis code field which, when translated to numerical data would result in the Pneumonia and Covid rises be so similar.

e6c on September 8th, 2020 at 01:04 UTC »

For people having questions about pneumonia, it is really important to understand that pneumonia is a description of a symptom, it literally means “inflammation of the lung tissue”, it does not give you any insight into the cause of the inflammation.

When you see COVID and pneumonia together it is implying that the patient died from pneumonia BECAUSE of COVID.

EDIT: I did the math, the correlation between COVID and Pnuemonia is 0.936 which is math terms means a VERY HIGH POSITIVE relationship, or in non-math terms, if you have pneumonia you most likely also have COVID.

robosome on September 8th, 2020 at 01:28 UTC »

Going back to 2009 would be interesting so that your plot would show the H1N1 pandemic.