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It's atypical because I cannot find numbers on how many practicing doctors fall to the flu each year. To me, this implies that there isn't enough of an existing pattern to warrant research. If dozens of practicing doctors in a mid-sized country like Italy were falling to the flu each year each month, there would almost certainly exist documentation to support it, because it would be considered a workplace hazard, getting insurance involved and so on. For example the number of police officers who are killed on the job is lower than 45 a month despite there being far more officers than doctors, and that is of course a well documented workplace hazard (still lower than construction workers, fishermen, and garbagemen surprisingly).
I do see your point, though, that the number of doctors dying from corona could be inflated by many of them not having died from the virus itself. I suspect that this virus is much more widespread than officially recognized, and the vast majority of cases are so mild that they don't lead to "professional" medical attention. My elderly grand-uncle was hospitalized with a corona-virus in December (which they claimed was not the COVID19 strain, though I suspect otherwise) and he lives in Los Angeles. That is 2 months before health officials called for widespread testing, enough time for spread to the Nth degree.
How do you know your grand-uncle had a corona-virus and not just pneumonia or another type of bacterial or viral infection?
Over 500 dead today in the US, but 277 of those are in New York.
Next highest number is New Jersey with only 32 deaths followed by California with only 20.
I live in NY. I don't know any sick or dead people.