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Originally Posted by John41
To put it in perspective if you are hospitalized with the flu you have a 7% chance of dying and about 1% with Covid.
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More misinformation!
To
really put it "in perspective" with the
facts:
The hospital admission rate for COVID varies with age----2.5% ages 18-49, up to 17.2% age over 85, average 7.3%. Of those hospitalized, 15% died, could not get a breakdown by age, but
WAY above 1%.
The hospitalization rate for seasonal influenza is 9.1/100,000
population or .0091%., and about 10% of Americans get the flu each year, so 0.091% vs. 7.3%
So your chances of ending up in the hospital with "the flu" is miniscule compared to COVID
I couldn't find an accurate number for the percentage of
hospitalized flu cases that die, but we know the mortality rate year to year is about 0.1% of cases. The 15% deaths of 7.3% hospitalized COVID patients come to about 1%, or 10x as deadly as flu, which is in line with other known data
So bottom line, if that was hard to follow, is that you are MUCH MORE LIKELY to die of COVID than the flu.
PS: My numbers are all from the CDC especially MMWR. And yours?????