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Covid is comparable to the flu young people. Up till now (~ 2 years), 56395 Americans less than 50yo have died from Covid and 768688 people over 50yo have died.

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Covid is comparable to the flu young people No it's not. > Up till now (~ 2 years), 56395 Americans less than 50yo have died from Covid In the worst flu year in the last decade, the 95% confidence interval for total (all ages) flu deaths is 44k-64k and the flu also skews older for deaths, with around 75% in the over 50 category. 56k in 2 years under 50 is much worse than the flu in that age group.
• adrr 5y ago
  One of the worst flu seasons we had in the last 20 years in term of deaths. Covid has 10x the mortality rate for the age range 0 to 49. If you look at the H1N1 pandemic, which infected half of Americans and killed 20,000. It's on a full different scale. Covid hasn't infected half of Americans. Covid is killing people who don't have covid. Elective surgeries are getting stopped which include cancer removal surgeries. ERs are full. There's cases of people dying of treatable heart attacks in parking lots because there are no beds. Has flu ever done that in the last 50 years? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm https://www.wvtm13.com/article/alabama-heart-patient-dies-after-hospital-unable-find-icu-bed/37576848 https://www.wvtm13.com/article/alabama-heart-patient-dies-af...