FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - COVID-19: Lounge thread for thoughts, concerns and questions
Old Mar 17, 2020, 10:33 am
  #732  
allset2travel
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: SFOSJCOAK
Programs: AA-EXP & 1MM+, AS, MR-LTT, HH Gold
Posts: 7,581
Originally Posted by narvik
There have been cases of death that have been falsely attributed to influenza, and only after testing postmortem confirmed as caused by COVID-19.
Some believe this situation is currently occurring quite often.

Very difficult to distinguish the cause of death when up to 500 persons a day are dying in the US of influenza during peak flu season, yet [hardly] no testing is done for COVID-19.
It is sobering that the H1N1 (2009) was such a "quiet killer" as was said in this article:
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/11/...0-years-later/
allset2travel is offline