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I've commonly heard people comparing this virus to the flu. There's a pretty good post on reddit comparing them. The summary is that Covid-19 is 20x as deadly,
by alach11 7y ago
I've commonly heard people comparing this virus to the flu. There's a pretty good post on reddit comparing them. The summary is that Covid-19 is 20x as deadly, requires 10x as many hospitalizations, and is more transmissible.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/f8k2nj/why_sarscov2_is_not_just_the_flu_with_sources/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/f8k2nj/why_sar...
- dr_dshiv 7y agoBut that's only if you believe that the number of measured cases are the number of actual cases. They would need to randomly sample the population for that to be true. My guess is that most people just get a small cold from this virus -- and some have a big reaction. So we really don't know the death rate.