re: Big Ten discussing start of college football season on week of Thanksgiving

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When you consider that the flu generally has it's heyday over a period of 4 months,

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That might be true but the doctors chose to go with 6 months instead so I'm going to trust them for this study. But even if you did what you suggested and used the average for the flu death estimates, covid deaths would still be higher

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It is getting harder and harder to know what to believe and what to disregard.

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I don't think so, you just need to take the majority of the studies. You can also find some outlier studies that are not the majority. You can do that with masks and get some easy answers regarding them. The CDC did frick up their messaging regarding masks at the start which I won't deny was very bad.