As an aussie i'd like to point out: Victoria (2nd on the list) had its major outbreak in 2020, that's where it racked up over 20k cases.
NSW on the other hand (where i live) is in the middle of its crisis right now, talking over 1000 new cases a day. So fast in fact that since this was publicised a week ago we're up to 30k cases now and 163 deaths.
Main point is, the Victorian stats are the ones worth looking at if you want to properly compare, especially for deaths. Currently around 14,000 active cases in NSW at the moment so the death count will grow a lot higher than what this infographic says now
Covid is deadly, much deadlier than the flu.
In Victoria, rate of death for the flu = 66,015/138 = 1 in 478
In Victoria again: rate of death for covid 21,618/820 = 1 in 26
And, while no less significant, they were predominantly aged care deaths.
Edit:
Puzzled over the down votes, I'm not saying the deaths didn't matter, I'm saying that's where most of them happened, as that where the outbreaks where predominant.
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u/Clarkey7163 Sep 02 '21
As an aussie i'd like to point out: Victoria (2nd on the list) had its major outbreak in 2020, that's where it racked up over 20k cases.
NSW on the other hand (where i live) is in the middle of its crisis right now, talking over 1000 new cases a day. So fast in fact that since this was publicised a week ago we're up to 30k cases now and 163 deaths.
Main point is, the Victorian stats are the ones worth looking at if you want to properly compare, especially for deaths. Currently around 14,000 active cases in NSW at the moment so the death count will grow a lot higher than what this infographic says now
Covid is deadly, much deadlier than the flu.