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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by vonmoltke on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:03PM (#22549199)
I don't follow. Per the CDC link, seasonal flu hospitalizations result from 1.0% to 1.5% of flu infections. COVID-19 is currently at about 20%. That's a significantly higher hospital load for COVID-18 than for seasonal flu.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by ascii_only on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:08PM (#22549249)
With season flu hospitals are not overwhelmed but with covid-19 they probably will be so even more people will die.
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