Thread by @dgurdasani1

Got to love this- first of all the fluMOMO algorithm estimates excess deaths in a season- 'associated with flu activity' or 'influenza' not necessarily those with flu as the primary cause. Second, even looking at these, please show me where it says you get 300 deaths/day.

https://twitter.com/NickTriggle/status/1480163961236606978

And here's a bit on FluMOMO- the key bit here is is considers all excess deaths during winter to be down to flu (except considering extreme temperatures as another cause), when in fact many of these deaths will not have flu as primary cause.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Here's is the critical bit, that the authors acknowledge in the original paper on fluMOMO. It calculates excess mortality, which can occur from other causes:
"Other respiratory pathogens are not directly included in the model, even though they may affect winter mortality. "

Reference here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Important to be honest that these are modelled estimates of excess mortality over winter, rather than deaths that we know are directly caused by flu.