I gazed over this statistical report over flu issues in Germany, from 2020, and pondered upon it for a while. It comes from Deutsche Welle (German public TV).
When the flu season ended in the spring of 2018....they added up the numbers. Roughly 10-million Germans ended up visiting their doctors over that entire flu season.
Out of that (remember, the data comes from the impeccable RKI folks)....only 130 Germans died from the direct cause of the flu.....but around 13k were sent to the hospitals in that period.
I sat and read through CDC material.....it's odd because they (at least in the US)....never count flu deaths (they estimate them). The Germans? They actually go the extra effort and count the doctor visits, the hospitalizations, and the deaths attributed to the flu.
So when some German official or RKI guy appears to talk on something....he/she has the data to generally back up things. The CDC sometimes has data....sometimes just estimates. It's just an odd difference....an odd cultural thing that you tend to notice.
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