grok_mctanys ([personal profile] grok_mctanys) wrote in [personal profile] rich_jacko 2022-01-02 07:16 pm (UTC)

What's your source for the 'flu death numbers?

I was looking for some actual data for more than a decade, to get a good idea for what counts as "common" or not, and the best source I came up with was the 2001-2019 data linked from Flu deaths per year since 2000 - Office for National Statistics.

After a brief diversion on how ICD-10 codes work to figure out whether J09 was equivalent to J009 or J090 (spoiler: it's J090) Looking through the spreadsheet for deaths with code J09* to J11* I only found totals ranging from 17 in 2006, up to a high of 1,598 in 2018, with most years being below 200.

Am I looking at the wrong data? Or am I looking at the data wrong?

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