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What's the difference if you die from the flu you contracted at work?
by eanzenberg 6y ago
What's the difference if you die from the flu you contracted at work?
- quicklime 6y agoThe amount of risk.
- alwillis 6y agoCorrect. The mortality rate for the flu is 0.1%; for Covid-19 is at least 1-4%—as much as 40x as deadly. There’s a significantly higher risk of dying from Covid than the flu.
- glofish 6y agoperhaps if you are a nursing home resident, for under 40 the flu and many other diseases are far more deadly
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- eanzenberg 6y agoCovid is 0.1-0.5%, not as high as you claim.
- cameronbrown 6y agoNobody knows.
- eanzenberg 6y agoSure they do, it’s not even up for debate. Stop watching cnn and msnbc
- cameronbrown 6y agoI don't watch CNN. I live in the UK, and even then, I don't consume much mainstream news.
- eanzenberg 6y agoI haven’t seen any scientific publications with ifr > 1%, they’ve all come in 0.1-0.5%.
- alwillis 6y agoNone of the epidemiologist or public health experts have ever said the mortality rate is that low. It obviously varies by location—during the peak in Italy, it was close to 8% in the Lombardy region.
- Gibbon1 6y agoUCSF epidemiologist said 0.8% with adequate medical care. Course if you take the 15-20% infection rate and excess deaths in New York you get 1% to 1.3%.
- Figs 6y agoThe flu isn't at the forefront of everyone's minds, whereas the coronavirus is; most of the world's in lockdown over it right now. If someone is called back to work early while lockdowns are still going on, the bereaved have someone to point their finger at and say "It's your fault this happened!" -- it seems much more likely to me that they would pursue legal action as a result of these conditions, and consequently it's an important business risk to consider. (It may well be a lesser risk than staying shut from a business's perspective if they're risking the company going bankrupt anyway as a result of not reopening -- but I was curious if they were accounting for it.) Of course, it's a fair question if we should've been holding organizations to a higher standard for preventing the spread of diseases before. My mom died of the flu when I was 8. If people took infectious diseases more seriously and held organizations responsible for policies that permit diseases to spread so easily, maybe we could do something about flu deaths as well?
- foota 6y agoPeople don't normally take many steps to avoid the flu, whereas if you're required to go into work and that's the only time you see people it seems you could make a strong case that being required to go in to work was unsafe and caused you to catch the coronavirus.