How does COVID-19 compare with the flu?
COVID-19 is generally more severe than the flu.
Data to date suggests that about 20 percent of people with COVID-19 experience severe or critical illness, requiring hospitalization and often the administration of oxygen or mechanical ventilation.
Although there are millions of flu cases each year in the United States, a smaller percentage of flu cases are estimated to result in hospitalization.
The results of studies on the exact mortality rate for COVID-19 have so far been varied. This calculation has been dependent on factors like location and population age.
The estimated mortality rates are higher than that of seasonal influenza.
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COVID-19 'ten times more lethal than seasonal flu': Fauci
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on told a congressional panel that the coronavirus has a mortality that is "ten times" that of the seasonal flu.
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Send this to anyone who still thinks COVID-19 is basically the same as the flu.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has similar symptoms to the flu. They also spread in similar ways. So it's natural to want to compare the two. But COVID-19 is very different, in ways that make it much more dangerous. And understanding how is key to understanding why we have to take it so seriously.
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