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Re:Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU by dharmab on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:27PM (#22273037)
Influenza is a serious disease that kills tens of thousands of people every year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

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Re:Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU by unishark on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:16PM (#22273314)
The overwhelming majority of deaths are elderly people though. Then most of the rest are above middle aged. Only a tiny percentage of young healthy people die from the flu. One thing that's very different about some of these strains.

EDIT: not to minimize the flu though. Comparing a flu to a cold is like comparing a migraine to a tension headache.

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