Pneumonia deaths down.
Covid-19 deaths up.
Hmm.
I’m not able to figure out how to plot this on the CDC’s site, but the dataset is here if you want to make your own:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData12.csv
There is a very active discussion of this on Reddit: Pneumonia Deaths have fallen off a cliff this year, I wonder what could have caused this to happen.
Via: According to Hoyt:
…the 2019-2020 season shows week by week pneumonia mortality to be low compared to the last few years, which is not what I expected. What I truly did not expect was the sharp decline over the last few weeks.