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So about twice as bad as the flu? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

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• bluepoint 5y ago
  Maybe. However if I understand correctly it is much more contagious than the flu which means that this 0.4% will die almost at the same time (say in a year), while the flu will have to circulate for years until it claims its own 0.1% (or whatever percent). I am not an expert, btw.
• tasty_freeze 5y ago
  Why not compare apples and apples? That is, because of covid, people were wearing masks, distancing, large crowds were outlawed, etc. So comparing covid stats of 2020 to flu stats of 2017-18 isn't too useful. Why not compare flu stats to covid stats in the same time window? Because of those massive, intrusive efforts to stop the spread of covid, flu numbers were/are way down. The number of flu deaths in the US in 2020 was something like ~700 (usually it is 30,000), and covid was ~400,000 deaths. So, no, not 2x worse.
  • hrfbi 5y ago
    We are comparing mortality, not spread. Masks do not help with mortality.
  • hrfbi 5y ago
    We are comparing mortality, not spread. Masks do not help with mortality.