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Originally Posted by DanT

In the United States in 2017, there were 647,457 deaths from heart disease, about 1,800 per day.( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lea...s-of-death.htm ) The total number of deaths that year was 2,813,503 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm), about 7,700 per day. Having a 2 or 3 thousand die in one day from a virus is notable, which is why the Surgeon General made the remarks he did. In the first source I cited, the number of "influenza and pneumonia" deaths for 2017 was 55,672, about 150 per day.

I wonder what % of the population gets flu shots and also wonder what the number of deaths before flu shots were a thing.