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both flu and covid kill the same kind of people, very old and frail ones. So in a sense they should be competitors, and they'll both kill fewer than if either d
by bagacrap 7y ago
both flu and covid kill the same kind of people, very old and frail ones. So in a sense they should be competitors, and they'll both kill fewer than if either disease were the only one.
- mcbits 7y agoCovid kills people who would survive the flu, so if someone catches both, they would have a higher chance of dying than from the flu alone, which would affect the flu's stats because these would be recorded as flu deaths.
- jfnixon 7y agoFlu kills children, covid-19 doesn't. Not sure if there is an 'expected' percentage of flu deaths in children, but if so, we might estimate the covid effect by looking at those numbers.