Flu vs Covid death rate18 Dec 2020 11:01
'Lancet study shows nearly twice as many people contracted COVID-19 at the height of the first wave of infections in March and April when compared to season flu with the death rate coming in almost three times higher.
• The research was based on ~90k French patients hospitalised with COVID-19 this spring with ~46k patients with seasonal influenza in the country in three winter months of 2018/19.
• Some 16.9% of hospitalised COVID patients died during the study compared to 5.8% for the influenza group with median age of patients being 68 years and 71 years respectively.
• “The finding that the COVID-19 death rate was three times higher than for seasonal influenza is particularly striking when reminded that the 2018-2019 flu season had been the worst in the past years in France in terms of number of deaths,” Professor Catherine Quantin, who jointly the study, said.'
Accurate early testing plus effective treatment is the only way out of this...especially for those who cannot receive the vaccination.