Re:Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)
by mkolodny on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:13PM
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Since June 2020, flu deaths have been in the single digits or teens most months, while covid deaths have been in the thousands or tens of thousands each month [0]. So covid is around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm