Minnesota reached an unwanted landmark this week when deaths from COVID-19 exceeded influenza deaths in every year since 2010 – the year that case-based counting for flu deaths started.
Minnesota’s coronavirus death count rose to 452 on Tuesday, almost exactly two months after the first case was confirmed in the state and six-and-a-half weeks after the first death.
This made the outbreak more deadly than any of the flu seasons in the past 10 years, surpassing the most severe flu season in recent memory, 2017/18, in which 440 people died in Minnesota. Continue reading.