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[dewophile]

for the folks that like to compare covid to the flu:

A better measure to compare flu to COVID-19 is to look at mortality, which is the rate at which people die from the virus in the general population, as opposed to the fatality rate, which is the rate at which infected people die. This metric takes into account how vaccinations, herd immunity, infection rate, and reproduction rate have affected the spread of the virus and ultimately its death rate. For instance, the fatality rate of measles may be as high as 25%. But are you more likely to die from measles than from flu or COVID-19? No, because the mortality rate of measles in the US is 0.00003% (2017) since most people are vaccinated for it. The CDC reports that the mortality rate of seasonal influenza is 0.002% ²², while the mortality rate in New York City for COVID-19 is expected to hit 0.2%, killing 1 in 500 New Yorkers.²? The COVID-19 mortality rate in New York City is 100 times greater than the mortality rate of the flu despite strict social distancing practices being enforced for over a month. The Lombardy region of Italy was slow to adopt social distancing protocols and saw mortality rates 68 times greater than the flu. Sweden, where there is no mandated lockdown, currently has a mortality rate 13 times higher than the flu, while its neighbor, Norway, has a mortality rate about 2 times higher than the flu. COVID-19 is not the flu, and we’ll be better off if we didn’t pretend that it was.