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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
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From the sufferer's perspective, not much difference. I've had 'em both. The flu several times over the years, and COVID last year. Not much fun but in all honesty I've been sicker with the flu. Several times.
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Originally Posted by Byte1
"A number of studies have linked influenza to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, and scientists have theorized that the inflammatory response triggered by the flu can fuel the development of atherosclerosis, a contributor to heart and artery disease."
"Other research has suggested that this association persists past those initial seven days of infection: A 2004 NEJM study found that while the increased risks of heart attack and stroke were both highest in the first three days after diagnosis, the dangers only “gradually fell during the following weeks.” And in 2008, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal that the risk of stroke after a flu diagnosis remained elevated up to three months."
There are many other side effects attributed to the Flu, so to discount the seriousness of the illness, is not a very good argument. Covid is bad IF you become infected AND you have the serious symptoms. So is the Flu. Millions get infected with both and survive. That's not my opinion, just fact. My opinion is that more folks are infected with Covid and shrug it off easier than those infected with the FLU. Seems like even the slightest flu infection causes more misery than the slightest Covid infection. Just my opinion on the last.
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Careful!!
"Linked to" is only some statistical corellation, however tiny, that most likelly has no meaning.
And scientists "theorizing" is really hypothesizing which is what scientists do. It does not imply anything.