Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by dragonwriter on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:38PM
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> Influenza kills thousands of people under 18 every year:
No, not only does this exaggerate the normal annual impact, but it has killed far fewer (about half) in that age group than COVID has during the COVID crisis. Most of the COVID countermeasures (everything other than the vaccine itself) are effective against the flu, too, and COVID is much more dangerous (considering both deadliness and infectiousness) than the flu even to kids.
No, not only does this exaggerate the normal annual impact, but it has killed far fewer (about half) in that age group than COVID has during the COVID crisis. Most of the COVID countermeasures (everything other than the vaccine itself) are effective against the flu, too, and COVID is much more dangerous (considering both deadliness and infectiousness) than the flu even to kids.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...