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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:21PM (#23023760)
Well UK deaths from flu are about were 500 deaths per 66M for the most recent year of published cause of death statistics, which I understand (from a couple of papers on annual infection rates) represents about 500/13M infections.

Covid19 figures in the UK are 26,000 [hospital] deaths for 165,000 confirmed infections. Even if we assume the entire population is infected ... that makes it a minimum of 10x as deadly as flu. We're at a slowly falling ~5000 deaths per day; when care-home and other Covid deaths get added ...

I think perhaps you're down-playing it a little too much.

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:34PM (#23023924)
To reiterate the third/last sentence of my post, I'm explicitly not down-playing anything--I'm not asserting anything about covid WRT the flu, only cautioning against drawing conclusions based on potentially outdated information.
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