Mea culpa, I had the <1 numbers of flu in my head as the <10 number- I shouldn't have said "as badly". However, those charts aren't great- as someone else noted

Mea culpa, I had the <1 numbers of flu in my head as the <10 number- I shouldn't have said "as badly". However, those charts aren't great- as someone else noted comparing estimated flu numbers with confirmed COVID cases is problematic. In my local region, a randomized serology study suggested that we have at least 3x as many infections as confirmed cases, and a raw extrapolation of deaths to IFR rates suggests its even higher. It's best to say "the fatality rate is near the same order as the flu for school age children"