What The Viewpoint Says: Publicly available data were used to analyze the number of deaths from seasonal influenza deaths compared with deaths from COVID-19.
Authors: Jeremy Samuel Faust, M.D., M.S., of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2306)
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