Hey anons:
Someone texted me yesterday that her neighbor is a nurse and is distraught because 5-6 people a day are dying in hospital in Queens.
So, being curious by nature, I looked up morbidity stats in NYC. Here's what I found for the year 2016-2017.
Mortality
The citywide age-adjusted death rate decreased between 2016 and 2017, from 575.4 per 100,000 population to 545.7โฆ
2017 NYC population: 8.623 million.
Let's do some math. 8,623,000 รท 100,000 = 86.23 x 545.7 = 47,056 deaths in total 2016-2017.
47,056 รท 365 = 129 deaths per day.
Of the over 200 hospitals in NYC, only 11 are "acute care." We've been hearing about only Queens. It's moar difficult to find mortality rate by hospital here, or to rank hospitals by size. (https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/hospitals/)
On a related note, here are the Flu stats for May 2019. Perhaps someone can dig into these for perspective.
Of note, be aware that there are stats for unidentified strains of flu. I submit that covid-19 may be such a strain that is being "branded" and spun into a big new thing when in fact it may just be leftovers. ( https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influenza/surveillance/2018-2019/archive/2019-05-18_flu_report.pdf )