Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 12,000 Hoosiers is deadlier than the typical flu. That’s according to State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box.
“You can look on our website and see past deaths from influenza, which would be anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand or 1,600 deaths,” she said Wednesday. “But honestly, if you look at our overall deaths for last year preliminarily, there were like around 77,000, and we usually average about 65,000 deaths, and that pretty much is right on par with the additional 12,000 deaths that we’ve had from COVID.”
Dr. Box was asked to address some of the skepticism with the death numbers during state officials’ COVID-19 press conference on Wednesday.
