and no-one so much as blinks.
ironically, from the CDC page:
The number of hospitalizations estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates
Does that make them lower than 16,600 *worldwide*?
Worldwide means countries other than the US are included in the counting. Even Italy.
And we still can’t get to half of the 2018-2019 flu deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/