Written and published on 16 November 2020

Drawing: “Bodies Stacked Like Cordwood,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 June 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Bodies of six identical men, lying face up, and stiff, piled on top of each other.

Drawing: “Bodies Stacked Like Cordwood,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 June 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Bodies of six identical men, lying face up, and stiff, piled on top of each other.

Dear Ones,

The 2017-2018 Influenza-related mortality rate in United States = 0.11 percent, which is 1/10 of 1 percent of the United States population.

The 2018-2019 Influenza-related mortality rate in United States = 0.06 percent, which about half as many deaths as in the prior year’s flu season.

Combined deaths from flu, pneumonia and COVID-19 from the when COVID-19 arrived at the beginning of February to the end of October 2020 were 0.11 percent, which is only slightly more than 1/10 of 1 percent of the United States population.

These latter statistics are 3 months short of a year of data. The mortality rate since COVID-19 arrived is running ‘neck in neck’ with the data for the 2017-2018 pre-COVID flu season here in the United States, but about twice that for 2018-2019.

At the end of February 2020 we will have a comparison for a full year of COVID-19 plus influenza-related mortalities.

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Number of deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza in the U.S. as of October 31, 2020 … in Statista.com … https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113051/number-reported-deaths-from-covid-pneumonia-and-flu-us/ ..

I did a Google search for United States 2020 population and got 331,002,651 people.

From those I derived the mortality rate.

For the prior years’ influenza-related deaths I used totals from the next to the last column in Table 2 for each of these …

Link: “Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States, 2017-2018 influenza season,” at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … … https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm ..

Link: “Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States, 2018-2019 influenza season,” at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html ..

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