COVID vs Flu Comparison

Comments debate the relative severity of COVID-19 compared to seasonal flu, focusing on death rates, hospitalizations, and historical data from sources like CDC.

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wetpaws Jan 28, 2020 View on HN

Thought this way too untill I checked CDC stats on flu. Death/hospitalisation rates are completely uncompatable.

anoncareer0212 May 10, 2020 View on HN

You're repeating the article with some grandiose hand-waving to compare it to the flu, when it's already killed 5x any flu season in just 4 months :/

dwild Aug 19, 2020 View on HN

You had a bad flu, once and that make you think flu is as bad as covid-19?This isn't just one bad case, it's millions of bad cases. There's no flu that killed that many people in that short of time, ever.From a quick research, it seems like the flu kill between 12k and 61k people annually in the US. The US is now near 3x the worst estimate and the year is still young, and that's with all the precaution the US is taking against the virus.Personally I hope that this pa

You do realise that the `normal` flu kills people, right?

dzelzs Oct 31, 2020 View on HN

are you comparing the flu to c-19?

jjtheblunt Apr 16, 2020 View on HN

Does the mortality rate across entire population (not particular subpopulations) exceed that of the flu?

steveeq1 May 8, 2020 View on HN

Don't know why this is being downvoted. The flu kills tens of thousands a year, yet no one seemed to want to shut down the economy in the past. . .

zabana Mar 20, 2020 View on HN

but how do these numbers compare to general flu fatality rates ?

cycrutchfield Mar 3, 2020 View on HN

5-10x more deadly than influenza is “only slightly worse”?

gus_massa Mar 8, 2020 View on HN

I agree. Another point is that the doctor probably know about the dead rate of the flu, that is lower but not much lower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Prognosis(There is a vaccine for the flu, it will not help against corvid-19, but this may be a bad year to get a bad flu while the hospital is full of covid-19 patients.)