Interesting fact I looked up just now.

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Approximately .68 million people died of AIDS in 2020. Confirmed deaths of covid that same year were at 1.8 million, and total excess deaths reached over 3 million.

Unsurprisingly, people living with AIDS have a much higher covid fatality rate than the general population.

Merry second third pandemic Christmas! (Wait, is it the second or the third? Do we even count Christmas 2019?)

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If *officially* hit our shores in early 2020.

That said, a few of my friends elsewhere reported they had what turned out to be COVID symptoms in the fall of 2019 (and survived!)

So, depends on whether you count the official or unofficial start.. :)