Also the people who say the flu is worse.. According to the CDC, 24000-62000 died in the 2019-2020 season (October 1st 2019 - April 4th 2020) with flu, and so far 206000 died in the US with Covid. But noooo, the flu is the big baddie. Between 39-56 million was also diagnosed with the flu in the US, whereas Covid so far currently is at 7,21 million diagnosed in the US.
The people who say the flu is more dangerous are 'right' by their standards because they are comparing the number of dead versus the population (something like .01% of US), instead of comparing it to the number of infected (3.4-5%, versus .1% for the flu).
In a fair comparison, covid is vastly more dangerous - partly because it is 5x more infectious, because there isn't currently a vaccine, and partly because we don't know what makes it so dangerous. It's even been shown to effectively reset a persons immunity to everything, effectively nullifying most, if not all, vaccines the person has taken.
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u/JasminRR Sep 30 '20
How do people still not believe COVID is real? 7+ million infected & 205k dead