controversy wrote:
...noticed some questions about how serious the common flu is relative to Covid-19. This link at the CDC may be helpful -- it provides flu statics for the previous 10 years -- and might surprise you.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
You'll note that in 2017-2018 flu season October-March the CDS estimated...
45,000,000 US residents had the flu
21,000,000 visited a doctor
810,000 were hospitalized
61,000 died
Appears to have been much worse than Covid-19, so far --- AND there were immunizations and proven therapeutics available for this common flu. Don't remember any business shutdowns or shelter in place orders -- in fact, I don't recall the news media even mentioning it.
Last year, 20-18-2019, the numbers are...
35,520,883 US residents had the flu
16,520,350 visited a doctor
490,561 were hospitalized
34,157 died
...noticed some questions about how serious the co... (
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Not sure what it is going to take to get people to understand. IT IS THE MORTALITY RATE!!! According to your numbers for 2017-2018 listed above the mortality rate was .1% that's 1/10th of a percent. Todays global numbers show COVID-19 to have a mortality rate of 6.8%... 68 times higher. And the rate for the US is 5.4%... 54 times higher. If you do the math and use the global rate of 6.8%, over 3,000,000 people would have died!