US Pneumonia Deaths – Dropoff

marklacey · on April 5, 2020

This was updated April 4: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...

“The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 8.2% which is above the epidemic threshold of 7.2%. Deaths due to pneumonia have increased sharply since the end of February, while those due to influenza increased modestly through early March and declined this week. Deaths attributed specifically to COVID-19 will be reported next week.”

generalpass · on April 7, 2020

I found the source file:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/...

I can't find where this is linked to on the CDC site, but that is the source data for the tweet.

From the csv, here is "All Deaths" for first 12 weeks of each year:

  Year,2020,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014
  Week
  1,58961,58289,66134,59763,55788,61737,53277
  2,58962,58351,67495,60980,55525,61141,55620
  3,57371,58193,64647,59293,55182,58628,54580
  4,56666,57834,62780,58047,55606,57269,54085
  5,55849,58122,60974,58432,54896,57284,53955
  6,55992,58489,61110,59038,55106,56420,53397
  7,54246,57915,59779,58479,55785,56348,53815
  8,53745,57856,57793,58288,54873,55668,52642
  9,53382,57915,56692,57256,55875,55732,51674
  10,51978,58488,57093,57477,56112,55272,52058
  11,47655,57869,56326,56656,54462,54262,51782
  12,40002,57086,55766,57045,54662,53238,51385

  Year,2020,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014
  Week
  1,58961,58289,66134,59763,55788,61737,53277
  2,117923,116640,133629,120743,111313,122878,108897
  3,175294,174833,198276,180036,166495,181506,163477
  4,231960,232667,261056,238083,222101,238775,217562
  5,287809,290789,322030,296515,276997,296059,271517
  6,343801,349278,383140,355553,332103,352479,324914
  7,398047,407193,442919,414032,387888,408827,378729
  8,451792,465049,500712,472320,442761,464495,431371
  9,505174,522964,557404,529576,498636,520227,483045
  10,557152,581452,614497,587053,554748,575499,535103
  11,604807,639321,670823,643709,609210,629761,586885
  12,644809,696407,726589,700754,663872,682999,638270

Plugging it into a graph is more dramatic, especially looking at the numbers in 2018 (2017-2018 season).

I wish I could find a page on the CDC website that links to these reports, but you can easily get the latest report by just increasing the week number by 1.

generalpass · on April 5, 2020

How about a link to source data?