COVID and Pneumonia and Influenza… oh my

OK. Lots of charts making their way around comparing deaths Year-over-Year for COVID, pneumonia and influenza.

I pulled the data from the CDC for the last 3 years comparing influenza, pneumonia, COVID-19 and ALL Deaths.

Let’s start with 2020 vs 2018 (one of the higher flu seasons in the past 10 years)

Note that the CDC only publishes their death data from about 2 weeks ago so we still have a LOT to go through… which is why this is a gut-check report and not a final word.