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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by zpeti on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:08AM (#24717657)
Influenza is contained because there is some form of herd immunity already. Remember COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, which is why it's spread so much so fast, no one is immune at first. But to suggest that the covid death numbers will be this high year after year after year is unlikely in my opinion, as is shown by the fact that many places with big first waves (north italy, sweden, london) don't have a second wave (especially in death numbers).
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by sdfkkksdfsdff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:16AM (#24717716)
Influenza is also new every year. There have been other Coronaviruses before.
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by AstralStorm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:24PM (#24721448)
Not exactly new. Partial immunity to many strains of flu is common and widespread. Not so much to SARS family coronaviruses. (Which are very different from other coronaviruses, much more than flu strains between each other.)
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by sdfkkksdfsdff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:50PM (#24724784)
Nevertheless, isn't the latest finding that many people already seem to be partially immune - perhaps because there are some similarities to other Corona viruses that the immune system can latch on to?
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by rweir on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:42AM (#24718588)
London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyone "who can" work from home to do so for ~4.5 of the last six months (it was briefly rescinded then reinstated), crash built hospitals in convention centres to try to handle overload from hospitals and still is currently at the same new case rate as April[0]. Fortunately death rates are still fairly low. I don't know if a vaccine/other interventions will prevent it being a yearly disaster but it certainly currently is.

[0]: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--ca...

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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by thelightthat on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:40PM (#24767832)
My friends in London tell me mask wearing is not widely respected or enforced, which is contributing towards the next lockdown.
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