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About 0.05% of people who caught the flu in the US died this season[0]. The 7.1% number you quote is total mortality of the flu and pneumonia combined. Pneumon
by thesausageking 7y ago
About 0.05% of people who caught the flu in the US died this season[0].
The 7.1% number you quote is total mortality of the flu and pneumonia combined. Pneumonia is often the cause of death for patients that are very sick with something else. For example, 40-60% of patients with traumatic brain injury get pneumonia.
The number you want is case fatality rate (CFR) which is 0.5%. The current tentative estimates for the Corona virus is 2-3%. For comparison, SARS was 9%.
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