April 15 2020 US Regular Flu Deaths vs Pandemic Flu Deaths

2019-2020 U.S. Regular Flu Season: Preliminary CDC estimates that, from October 1, 2019, April 15, 2020, there have been 24,000 – 62,000 flu deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm



COVID-19: U.S. total deaths: 24,582 as of April 15, 2020.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

2020 US Deaths from Regular Flu vs Pandemic Flu

2019-2020 U.S. Regular Flu Season: Preliminary CDC estimates that, from October 1, 2019, through March 28, 2020, there have been 24,000 – 63,000 flu deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm



COVID-19: U.S. total deaths: 12,754 as of April 8, 2020.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

Coronavirus 2020 Essential Infrastructure

Guidance On The Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce

The advisory list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are typically essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working construction, and performing operational functions, among others. It also includes workers who support crucial supply chains and enable functions for critical infrastructure. 

https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce

Coronavirus 2020

(1) CDC Estimated Swine Flu Pandemic Deaths - United States 2009

https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm


(2) CDC Estimated Influenza Disease Burden, by Season — United States, 2010-2019 Influenza Seasons 
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html


(3) 2020 United States Coronavirus Deaths (Daily Updates)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/


Definition of Pandemic from the World Health Organization
The classical epidemiological definition of a pandemic is “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.” The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. However, seasonal epidemics are not considered pandemics.
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/11-088815/en/